Thomas Thurner

Thomas Thurner serves as the Director of Marketing and Research Manager at Semantic Web Company since September 2008. In addition, Thomas has been the General Coordinator for the SEMANTiCS Conference since September 2014. Prior experience includes serving as Project Lead at net culture lab from 2006 to 2008, where responsibilities included running two labs and curating approximately 30 projects. Thomas also worked as Fundraising Manager for Orange 94.0 from 1997 to 2002, successfully building a community of 1,800 donors. Earlier career experience includes a role as R&D Project Leader at Schlumberger Technologies, focused on developing an energy consumption meter. Thomas holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vienna, obtained between 1990 and 1994, and previously completed studies at HTL Waidhofen / Ybbs from 1984 to 1989.