Reinhard Moratz
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Master in Informatics
Doctoral studies in Informatics
Reinhard Moratz | |
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| Born | |
| Occupations | Science educator, academic and researcher |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Bachelor in Informatics Master in Informatics Doctoral studies in Informatics |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg Bielefeld University |
| Thesis | Hybrid neural and semantic network based scene interpretation of video streams |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Münster |
Reinhard Moratz is a German science educator, academic and researcher. He is Ausserplanmässiger Professor at the University of Münster’s Institute for Geoinformatics.[1] He has worked on spatial cognition and reasoning, qualitative theories of low-dimensional entities like straight line segments and oriented points, artificial intelligence and specifically the OPRA calculus. His research is based on computational models that account for the varying reference frames used in giving verbal instructions about navigation.[2]
Moratz has published various research papers and is the author of Visuelle Objekterkennung als kognitive Simulation and co-editor of the conference proceedings of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory 2011 (COSIT 2011). Moratz's work has been published in Artificial Intelligence. He is a former member of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA).[3]
Moratz completed his Bachelor and Master in Informatics from the University of Hamburg. He then received Doctoral degree in the same field from Bielefeld University.[1]
Career
Moratz started his academic career as an assistant professor at University of Bremen in 2001. He worked in the industry prior to receiving his Habilitation degree in Computer Science in 2008. Moratz then moved to the USA and was appointed as associate professor at University of Maine’s College of Engineering. He also served as the Director of the Human Robot Interaction Laboratory at the university.[4] Parallel to this appointment, he was elected as a member of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). In 2017, Moratz resigned from his positions at the University of Maine. He then returned to Germany, where he was appointed as Ausserplanmässiger Professor at the University of Münster's Institute for Geo-informatics in November 2018.[1]
