Not-so-short Bio
Giancarlo Guizzardi is a Full Professor of Software Science and Evolution as well as Chair and Department Head of Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services (SCS) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS), University of Twente, The Netherlands. Before coming to the Netherlands, he was a professor of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), where he led the Cognitive and Conceptual Research Group (CORE), as part of the Knowledge Representation and Databases (KRDB) Competence Center. He has also co-founded and co-directed the Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO), in Brazil.
He has been a guest professor at the University of Trento (Italy) - for 18 months between 2013 and 2015 - working on the ERC project Lucretius (Foundations of Software Evolution), and a visiting professor at the Prague School of Economics (Czech Republic) - multiple times since 2006 in their Cognitive Informatics Program. Currently, he is an Affiliated/Guest Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University, in Sweden (since Jan 2023), and a a guest professor at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria).
He has been active for nearly three decades chiefly in the fields of Formal and Applied Ontology and Conceptual Modeling, and focusing problems in the areas of:
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Foundations of Intelligent Systems (Knowledge Representation and Commonsense Reasoning, Semantic Computing, and Ethics)
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Foundations of Data Science (Philosophy of Modeling, Foundations of Explanation, Data Semantics, Semantic Interoperability)
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Information System (including the modeling of Organizational, Social, Economic/Financial and Legal Systems, Requirements Engineering)
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Software Engineering (Requirements Engineering, Domain Engineering, Language Engineering)
His research follows a multi-disciplinary approach that aggregates results from Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Logics and Linguistics. Among the main results from his research program are the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO), the conceptual modeling language OntoUML, as well as the domain explanatory notion of Ontological Unpacking. Although he is centered in the area of Computer Science, he has publish in Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Logics, and Legal Theory.
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Over the years, he has supervised several PhD students. He has also played key roles in some of the most important scientific events in these fields: general chair (e.g., ER 2023, EDOC 2022, FOIS 2016 and 2024, IEEE CBI 2021); PC Chair (ER 2017, CAiSE 2024, FOIS 2012, EDOC 2010 and 2021); 80+ keynote speeches (e.g. ER, CAiSE, BPM, RCIS, IEEE ICSC) as well as many invited tutorials (e.g., IJCAI, SLE, IEEE RE, ISAO, C-FORS).
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He is currently an Associate Editor of a number of journals including Applied Ontology and Data & Knowledge Engineering, a co-editor of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series, and a member of several international journal editorial boards. He is currently the Chair of the ER Steering Commitee, as well as a member of the Steering Commitees of CAiSE, EDOC and IEEE CBI, and of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). He is also a co-founder and member of the advisory board of the LIFES institute (Leiden Institute for FAIR and Equitable Science).
He is considered a "Research Leader" standing on the list of the most cited academics in The Netherlands. He has also been included in the Stanford top 2% researchers list since its inception in 2020. According to a number of publications (e.g., this and this), he is one of the most influential authors in Conceptual Modeling (see also the image to the right - "Intellectual structural of the field of conceptual modeling", from this). In 2023, he was inducted as an ER Fellow.
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Finally, he acquired many research projects (in NL, Italy and Brazil), and coordinated many important technology transfer activities in sectors such as Space Exploration, Digital Journalism, Complex Media Management, Energy, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Off-Shore Software Development, Mobile Payment, Product Recommendation, Online Advertisement, Cadaster Management, among many others.
Short Bio
Giancarlo Guizzardi is a Full Professor of Software Science and Evolution as well as Chair and Department Head of Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services (SCS) at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He has also been a Guest Professor at Stockholm University (Sweden), the Technical University of Vienna (Austria), and the University of Trento (Italy). He has been active for nearly three decades in the areas of Formal and Applied Ontology, Conceptual Modeling, Enterprise Computing and Information Systems Engineering, working with a multidisciplinary approach in Computer Science that aggregates results from Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Logics and Linguistics. He is the main contributor to the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and to the OntoUML modeling language. Over the years, he has delivered keynote speeches in several key international conferences in these fields (e.g., ER, CAiSE, BPM, IEEE ICSC). He is currently an associate editor of a number of journals including Applied Ontology and Data & Knowledge Engineering, a co-editor of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series, and a member of several international journal editorial boards. He is currently the Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), a member of the Steering Committees of CAiSE, EDOC, and IEEE CBI, and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Finally, he is an ER fellow.
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Super-Short Bio
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Giancarlo Guizzardi is a Professor or Computer Science in The Netherlands.
He has been working for the past three decades in an interdisciplinary program called Meaningful Computing, which is about building computer-based systems that we can understand and trust.



