Norbert Fuhr

Norbert Fuhr is a professor of computer science
and the leader of the Duisburg Information Engineering Group based at
the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Education

His first degree is in technical computer science, which he got from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1980, and in 1986 he received his PhD
from the Department of Computer Science of the same university on "Probabilistic
Indexing and Retrieval".

Profession

He held a PostDoc position in Darmstadt until
1991, when he was appointed associate professor in the Computer
Science Department of the Technical University of Dortmund. Since 2002, he is a full professor at the
University of Duisburg-Essen.

Honors and awards

Fuhr's dissertation was awarded the "Gerhard Pietsch Award" of the German Society
of Documentation in 1987. In 2012, he received the
Gerard Salton Award.