Sebastian Schaffert

Salzburg Austria

Senior Researcher / Project Manager

Education

Dr. Sebastian Schaffert is CTO and co-founder of RedLink GmbH. He is also currently working as head of the “Knowledge and Media Technologies” department at Salzburg Research and occassionally as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences (FH) Salzburg. He received his diploma in Computer Science in 2001 and his PhD in 2004, both at the University of Munich, Germany. His current research focus is Semantic Web technologies, especially Linked Data, Semantic Search, Information Extraction, and Multimedia Information Systems. Dr. Schaffert has considerable experience in project management, software engineering as well as system administration. He has worked in important Open Sourc...