Norbert Fuhr (born 1956) is a professor of computer science and the leader of the Duisburg Information Engineering Group based at the

University of Duisburg-Essen The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...

, Germany.

Education

His first degree is in technical computer science, which he got from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the

Technical University of Darmstadt Technical may refer to: * Technical (vehicle), an improvised fighting vehicle * Technical analysis, a discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data * Technical drawing, showing how something is co ...

in 1980, and in 1986 he received his PhD ( Dr.-Ing) from the Department of Computer Science of the same university on "Probabilistic Indexing and Retrieval".

Profession

He held a PostDoc position in Darmstadt until 1991, when he was appointed Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the

Technical University of Dortmund TU Dortmund University (german: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's an ...

. Since 2002, he is a full professor at the

Honors and awards

Fuhr's dissertation was awarded the "Gerhard Pietsch Award" of the German Society of Documentation in 1987. In 2012, he received the

Gerard Salton Award The Gerard Salton Award is presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) every three years to an individual who has made "significant, sustained and continuing contributions to r ...

References

External links

Norbert Fuhr - University of Duisburg-Essen
German computer scientists 1956 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni Information retrieval researchers {{Compu-bio-stub