Birte Glimm has been working at the University of Ulm in the Institute for Artificial Intelligence since 2011. Until June 2017 as a junior professor and since then as a full professor. Before that, she was a research associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where she worked in the Information Systems Group mainly on the development of algorithms for automated reasoning in expressive description logics and on the implementation of the HermiT reasoner.

She did her PhD in Manchester in the Information Management Group under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ian Horrocks and Prof. Dr. Uli Sattler and was awarded the Best Thesis Award of the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in 2008. She studied Computer Science at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences from September 2001 to July 2004 and received her Bachelor's degree with a Best Thesis Award.

Prior to studying computer science, she worked in industry for 3.5 years and completed further studies in communication design.

Prof. Dr. Birte Glimm will give a Keynote-Talk at KI2021.