Bernhard Nebel

Bernhard Nebel, born on 6 May 1956, is a German artificial intelligence scientist and full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he holds the chair for foundations of artificial intelligence. He received his diploma from the University of Hamburg in 1980 and his doctorate from Saarland University in 1989 under Wolfgang Wahlster. Between 1982 and 1993 he worked on AI projects at the University of Hamburg, Technische Universität Berlin, ISI/USC, IBM Germany and the German Research Center for AI (DFKI), held an associate professorship at the University of Ulm from 1993 to 1996, and has been at Freiburg since 1996. He has made substantial contributions to the foundations of artificial intelligence, to automated planning and scheduling and to the RoboCup initiative; his CS Freiburg RoboCup team became world champion in the mid-size league in 1998, 2000 and 2001, and his group developed the first autonomous table football system. He is a fellow of ECCAI and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Leopoldina.