Institute of Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Birte Glimm

After completing my PhD at the University of Manchester (UK) in 2008 and a postdoctoral period at the University of Oxford (UK), I joined the Institute of Artificial Intelligence at Ulm University as a junior professor in 2011. I have held a W3 professorship since 2017 and assumed the role of Institute Director in 2022. Since 2026, I serve on the university’s executive board as Vice President for Teaching and International Affairs.

Since 2025, I have been co-spokesperson for the Research Training Group KEMAI “Knowledge Infusion and Extraction for Explainable Medical AI”. Currently, I am also a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities’ working group on “AI in Research” and a member of the Senate and Grant Committee on Research Training Groups of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Further Information

My scientific interest is mainly in knowledge representation, automatic reasoning and intelligent planning with application areas, among others, in medical AI and autonomous driving.

Current Scientific Activities and Academic Service

  • Vice President for Teaching and International Affairs (since 2026)
  • Member of the Grants and Senate Committee on Research Training Groups, German Research Foundation (DFG) (since 2025)
  • Member of the working group “AI in research” of the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat) (since 2026)
  • Member of the Admission's Board MSc Cognitive Systems (since 2014)
  • Member of the Admission's Board MSc AI for Connected Industries (since 2025)
  • Head of the study programme MSc AI for Connected Industries (seit 2025)
  • Area Chair European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2027)

Past Academic Service

  • 2022-2026 Deputy of the Examination Board Cognitive Systems
  • 2023-2026 Deputy of the Examination Board Computer Science
  • 2023-2026 Dean of Studies Computer Science
  • 2024-2026 Dean of Studies Cognitive Systems
  • 2024-2026 Chair of the study programme MSc Cognitive Systems
  • 2022-2026 Member of the Dr. rer. nat. PhD Commission (Computer Science)
  • 2014-2024 Chair of the Admission's Board MSc Cognitive Systems
  • 2019-2023 Chair of the Examination Board Computer Science
  • 2022-2023 Deputy Ombudsperson Good Research Practice
  • 2019-2022 Chair of the Exam Board Cognitive Systems
  • 2018-2021 Member of the Study Commission Cognitive Systems
  • 2021 Member of the Study Commission Computer Science
  • 2015-2018 Programme Coordination MSc Cognitive Systems

Past Scientific Activities

Projects and seminars in the area of AI, Planning, Ontologies and Semantic Web

Lectures

WiSe 2026/2027: Künstliche Intelligenz und Neuroinformatik, Robot Operating System, Learning Robots
SoSe 2026: Logik, AI Planning
WiSe 2025/2026: Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence, Künstliche Intelligenz und Neuroinformatik, Robot Operating System, Learning Robots
SoSe 2025: AI Planning
WiSe 2024/2025: Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence, Künstliche Intelligenz und Neuroinformatik
SoSe 2024: Logik
WiSe 2023/2024: Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence, Künstliche Intelligenz und Neuroinformatik, AI Planning
SoSe 2023: Programming Concepts for Cognitive Systems, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
WiSe 2022/2023: Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence, Künstliche Intelligenz und Neuroinformatik
SoSe 2022: Programming Concepts for Cognitive Systems
WiSe 2021/2022: Forschungssemester
SoSe 2021: Programming Concepts for Cognitive Systems, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
WiSe 2020/2021: Web Engineering
SoSe 2020: Programming Concepts for Cognitive Systems
WiSe 2019/2020: Web Engineering, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
SoSe 2019: Programming Concepts for Cognitive Systems
WiSe 2018/2019: Web Engineering, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
SoSe 2018: Einführung in die Informatik, Programming Concepts for Cognitive Systems
WiSe 2017/2018: Web Engineering, Programming Concepts for Cognitive Systems
SoSe 2017: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies, Einführung in die Informatik
WiSe 2016/2017: Introduction to Computer Science for Psychologists, Web Engineering
SoSe 2016: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
WiSe 2015/2016: Introduction to Computer Science for Psychologists
SoSe 2015: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
WiSe 2013/2014: Einführung in die Informatik, Semantic Web Grundlagen
SoSe 2013: Algorithmen in der Wissensrepräsentation
WiSe 2012/2013: Semantic Web Grundlagen
SoSe 2012: Algorithmen in der Wissensrepräsentation
WiSe 2011/2012: Semantic Web Grundlagen

2026Teaching Bonus of the Computer Science Department of Ulm University
2025Best Paper Nomination at the ESWC Conference 2025
2024Outstanding SPC Member Award European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024
2023Best Paper Nominee, Nathan Gruber and Birte Glimm, Extended Semantic Web Conference
2020Best Paper Award, Haonan Qiu, Adel Ayara and Birte Glimm, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
2020Best Paper Nominee, Haonan Qiu, Adel Ayara and Birte Glimm, International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2020
2020Best Research Track Senior Programme Committee Member, International Semantic Web Conference
2019Kooperationspreis Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft
2019Best Reproducibility Award, Andreas Steigmiller and Birte Glimm, International Semantic Web Conference
2019Best Research Paper Award runner-up, Andreas Steigmiller and Birte Glimm, International Semantic Web Conference
2017Google Faculty Research Award
2017Mileva Einstein-Marić-Preis 
2016Best Resources Paper, B. Parsia, N. Matentzoglu, R. S. Goncalves, B. Glimm and A. Steigmiller, International Semantic Web Conference
2015OWL Reasoner Evaluation Competition, 6 Tracks (Reasoner Konclude: 4 × 1. and 2 × 2. prize, Reasoner HermiT: 1 × 2. and 4 × 3. prize)
2014ISWC Best Reviewer Research Track, International Semantic Web Conference
2014Kurt Gödel medal, 1. FLoC Olympic Games
2014OWL Reasoner Evaluation Competition, 6 Tracks (Reasoner Konclude: 5 × 1. and 1 × 2. prize, Reasoner HermiT: 1 × 2. and 1 × 3. prize)
2013OWL Reasoner Evaluation Competition, 9 Tracks (Reasoner Konclude: 3×1., 2×2. and 2 × 3. prize, Reasoner HermiT: 1 × 1., 2 × 2. and 1 × 3. prize)
2011Best Programme Committee Member Finalist, International Semantic Web Conference
2010Best Research Paper Nominee, Birte Glimm, Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik and Giorgos Stoilos, International Semantic Web Conference
2008Steve Furber Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Computer Science
09.04–09.07Doctoral scholarship of the Foundation of German Business
09.04–09.07Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council studentship
2004Best computer science degree in 2004 at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
04.02–07.04Scholarship of the Foundation of German Business

Publications

2026

111.
Pirwass, Alicia; Glimm, Birte; Munz, Michael; Wilke, Hans-Joachim
Do We Really Need Diffusion? A Fast U-Net for Paired Medical Image Translation
In Wolter, D., Schwalbe, G., Editor, Proceedings of KI 2026: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Volume 16830 from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer
2026
DOI:10.1007/978-3-032-32335-4_8
ISBN:978-3-032-32334-7
Weblink:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-32335-4_8

2025

110.
Sundermann, Rahel; Krieter, Sebastian; Glimm, Birte; Thüm, Thomas
Teaching Software Quality with Adaptive Source Code Feedback
Proc. German Workshop on Software-Reengineering and Evolution (WSRE), Page 10-12
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik
April 2025
109.
Pirwass, Alicia; Glimm, Birte; Munz, Michael; Wilke, Hans-Joachim
Automatability and validity of methods for the quantification of intra-/Intermuscular adipose tissue in conventional MRI: a systematic review
BMC Medical Imaging, 25 (1) :499
2025
Publisher: Springer
DOI:10.1186/s12880-025-02037-w
ISBN:1471-2342
Weblink:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12880-025-02037-w#citeas
108.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Backward/Forward with Marking for Update Streams
, Proceedings of the 38th International Workshop on Description Logics Volume 4091
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2025
Weblink:https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4091/paper21.pdf
107.
Welt, Michael; Lodemann, Alexander; Olz, Conny; Bercher, Pascal; Glimm, Birte
Calculating Optimal Corrections for Unsolvable Planning Problems
Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)
Publisher: IOS Press
2025
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2025/Welt2025Unsolvable.pdf
106.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Delete/Rederive with Marking for Update Streams
, The Semantic Web. ESWC 2025 Volume 15718 from Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Page 152–168
Publisher: Springer
2025
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-94575-5_9
ISBN:978-3-031-94574-8
Weblink:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-94575-5_9

2024

105.
Delgrande, James P.; Glimm, Birte; Meyer, Thomas; Truszczynski, Miroslaw; Wolter, Frank
Current and Future Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 22282)
Dagstuhl Manifestos, 10 (1) :1-61
2024
DOI:10.4230/DAGMAN.10.1.1

2023

104.
Santos-Teixeira, Milene; Welt, Michael; Glimm, Birte
Challenges on Deriving Planning Problems from Ontologies
Proceedings of the PLanning And onTology wOrkshop (PLATO)
2023
103.
Gruber, Nathan; Glimm, Birte
Comparative Research in Stream Reasoning
Proceedings of the 20th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2023) from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2023
102.
Welt, Michael; Glimm, Birte; Santos-Teixeira, Milene
Computing Minimal Unsolvable and Maximal Solvable Abstractions of Planning Problems via Hitting Set Trees
Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS 2023)
2023
101.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Fully Dynamic Materialization Maintenance
, Proceedings of the 36th International Workshop on Description Logics Volume 3515
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2023
Weblink:https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3515/paper-15.pdf

2022

100.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Computing Concept Referring Expressions for Queries on Horn ALC Ontologies
Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2022)
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
2022
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2022/IlGl22a.pdf
99.
Illich, Moritz; Glimm, Birte
Computing Concept Referring Expressions with Standard OWL Reasoners
In Ofer Arieli and Martin Homola and Jean Christoph Jung and Marie-Laure Mugnier, Editor, Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022) Volume 3263 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2022
File:pdfhttps://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3263/paper-14.pdf
98.
Glimm, Birte; Kazakov, Yevgeny; Welt, Michael
Concept Abduction for Description Logics
In Ofer Arieli and Martin Homola and Jean Christoph Jung and Marie-Laure Mugnier, Editor, Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022) Volume 3263 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2022
File:pdfhttps://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3263/paper-11.pdf
97.
Delgrande, James P.; Glimm, Birte; Meyer, Thomas; Truszczynski, Miroslaw; Teixeira, Milene Santos; Wolter, Frank
Current and Future Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Dagstuhl Seminar 22282)
Dagstuhl Reports, 12 (7) :62—79
2022
DOI:10.4230/DagRep.12.7.62
File:https://doi.org/10.4230/DagRep.12.7.62
96.
Glimm, Birte; Kazakov, Yevgeny
SAT-Based Axiom Pinpointing Revisited
In Ofer Arieli and Martin Homola and Jean Christoph Jung and Marie-Laure Mugnier, Editor, Proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022) Volume 3263 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2022
File:pdfhttps://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3263/paper-10.pdf

2021

95.
Bercher, Pascal; Behnke, Gregor; Kraus, Matthias; Schiller, Marvin R. G.; Manstetten, Dietrich; Dambier, Michael; Dorna, Michael; Minker, Wolfgang; Glimm, Birte; Biundo, Susanne
Do It Yourself, but Not Alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement — Bringing a Planning-Based Interactive DIY Assistant to Life
Künstliche Intell., 35 (3) :367—375
2021
DOI:10.1007/s13218-021-00721-x
File:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-021-00721-x
94.
Bercher, Pascal; Behnke, Gregor; Kraus, Matthias; Schiller, Marvin R. G.; Manstetten, Dietrich; Dambier, Michael; Dorna, Michael; Minker, Wolfgang; Glimm, Birte; Biundo, Susanne
Do It Yourself, but Not Alone: Companion-Technology for Home Improvement – Bringing a Planning-Based Interactive DIY Assistant to Life
Künstliche Intelligenz – Special Issue on NLP and Semantics
2021
Weblink:https://rdcu.be/cmGwb
File:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13218-021-00721-x
93.
Wenzel, Maximilian; Liebig, Thorsten; Glimm, Birte
HDT Bitmap Triple Indices for Efficient RDF Data Exploration
Proceedings of the 18th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021) from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2021
92.
Qiu, Haonan; Ayara, Adel; Glimm, Birte
Ontology-Based Map Data Quality Assurance
Proceedings of the 18th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021) from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2021
91.
Steigmiller, Andreas; Glimm, Birte
Parallelised ABox Reasoning and Query Answering with Expressive Description Logics
Proceedings of the 18th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2021) from Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2021
90.
Steigmiller, Andreas; Glimm, Birte; Liebig, Thorsten
Query Answering and Scaling Extensions of Konclude
In Gunjan Singh and Raghava Mutharaju and Pavan Kapanipathi, Editor, Proceedings of the Semantic Reasoning Evaluation Challenge (SemREC 2021) Volume 3123 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Page 37—43
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2021
File:pdfhttps://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3123/paper5.pdf

2020

89.
Qiu, Haonan; Ayara, Adel; Glimm, Birte
A Knowledge Architecture Layer for Map Data in Autonomous Vehicles
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2020)
Publisher: IEEE
2020
File:/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2020/QiAG20a.pdf
88.
Qiu, Haonan; Ayara, Adel; Glimm, Birte
A Knowledge-Spatial Architecture for Processing Dynamic Maps in Automated Driving
, Proceedings of the ISWC 2020 Posters & Demonstrations Track Volume 2721 from CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org
2020
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2020/QiAG20c.pdf
87.
Behnke, Gregor; Bercher, Pascal; Kraus, Matthias; Schiller, Marvin R. G.; Mickeleit, Kristof; Häge, Timo; Dorna, Michael; Dambier, Michael; Minker, Wolfgang; Glimm, Birte; Biundo, Susanne
New Developments for Robert – Assisting Novice Users Even Better in DIY Projects
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2020), Page 343--347
Publisher: AAAI Press
2020
Weblink:https://aaai.org/ojs/index.php/ICAPS/article/view/6679/6533 - - "Link to the AAAI Paper Version"
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.090/Publikationen/2020/Behnke2020DIYAssistant.pdf