Leo Sauermann

**[[ http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/|Leo Sauermann ]]** studied Information science at the [[http://www.tuwien.ac.at/|Vienna University of Technology]]. Under the project name "gnowsis" he merged Personal Information Management with Semantic Web technologies, resulting in a [[http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/%7Esauermann/papers/sauermann2003.pdf|master thesis]] about „Using Semantic Web technologies to build a Semantic Desktop“. Working as a researcher at the [[http://www.dfki.de/|DFKI]] since 2004, he continued the work and now maintains the associated open-source project [[http://www.gnowsis.org/|gnowsis]]. His research focus is on [[http://www.w3.org/sw/|Semantic Web]] and its use in [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Management|Knowledge Management]]. In autumn 2003 he started to give talks about his work - before his master's examination the thesis was already a success. From 1998 to 2002 he has been working in several small software companies, including the position of lea