Ian Horrocks - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 1995–1997: University of Manchester. PhD in Computer Science.
  
• 1994–1995: University of Manchester. MSc (by research) in Computer Science.
  
• 1978–1981: University of Manchester. BSc (1st class) in Computer Science.
  
• 1969–1976: Formby High School, Formby, Merseyside.
  

Professional Experience

Plenary talks at conferences (selected):
Dec, 2011: JIST, Hangzhou, China.
Aug, 2010: ECCAI, Lisbon, Portugal
May, 2010: KR, Toronto, Canada
Mar, 2010: ICDT & EDBT Lausanne, Switzerland
Oct, 2007: ICTAI, Patras, Greece.
Oct, 2005: ICLP & CP, Barcelona, Spain.
Sep, 2005: Tableaux, Koblenz, Germany.
Jul, 2005: ICCS, Kassel, Germany.
Mar, 2005: LPAR, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Oct, 2004: ICIIP, Beijing, China.
Jul, 2002: CADE, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mar, 2002: EDBT, Prague, Czech Republic.

Other activities (selected)

• Editor in Chief, Journal of Web Semantics.
  
• Member of the editorial boards of 7 other international journals.
  
• Vice-president and founding member of the Semantic Web Science Association.
  
• Co-Chair of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) OWL Working Group.
  
• Chair of the Learned Society Awards Committee of the British Computer Society.
  
• Reviewer for numerous national and international funding agencies, including The Academy of Finland, BBSRC (UK), The British Council (UK), DFG (Germany), EPSRC (UK), FNSNF (Switzerland), NICTA (Australia), NSERC (Canada), The Research Council of Norway, RGC (Hong Kong) and WWTF (Austria).
  

Doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers

• Supervised more that twenty doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers, many of whom have gone on to establish successful research careers.
  
• External examiner for PhD and Habilitation theses at the universities of Aachen, Bolzano, Cambridge, Dresden, Hamburg, Jaume I, Karlsruhe, Liverpool and Maryland.