 Since then, he led his research group to become one of the world leading institutions in Semantic Web technology, and he played a leading role in establishing highly acknowledged international conferences and journals in this area.Rudi Studer was also director in the department Information Process Engineering at and one of the presidents of the FZI Research Center for Information Technology as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that developed semantic applications.He is a member of ACM and German Informatics Society.