Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze is Professor of Data & Knowledge Engineering at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Scientific Director of the Department of Knowledge Technologies for the social sciences at GESIS (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) in Cologne and Deputy Director at the Heine Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science (HeiCAD).

In his research, he works on the utilisation of large amounts of from the web with methods of Natural Language Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Retrieval and machine learning. As scientific director of the Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences department at GESIS, a particular focus lies on the use of (Social) Web data for interdisciplinary research in the social sciences.