Michael Fink - Personal

I was born in 1973 in Braunau, Austria. After High School graduation I started studying Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology and received my masters degree in February 2000 with an industrial thesis carried out in cooperation with Alcatel Austria. I worked as a software engineer for Alcatel Austria from May 1998 to March 2000.

In April 2000 I started studying for a PhD, working as a project research assistant in the Knowledge-Based Systems Group. Our project was supported by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) and aimed at the research of advanced, declarative methods for intelligent information agents. I received my PhD in September 2002, and for my thesis, I have been awarded the Heinz Zemanek Award 2004 by the Austrian Computer Society (see also: Ceremony, newspaper article (in German), OCG Journal article (in German)). Since October 2002 - with a year´s recess for a trip around the world - I am an assistant professor at the Knowledge-Based Systems Group. I have recently been awarded the best paper award at the 24th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2008) For details on academic activities see my research interests or teaching page.

In my spear time I like to do sports. I do play table tennis, ice hockey and soccer. I also like to play chess and Tarock (a traditional card game in Austria and southern Germany).