Bernhard Nebel
Bernhard Nebel is an AI researcher whose work covers knowledge representation, planning and robotics. He earned his doctorate at Saarland in 1989, worked in several AI research settings and held professorships at Ulm and Freiburg. His Freiburg period lasted from 1996 to 2022 and included research connected with verification and spatial cognition. He also served as IJCAI program chair and helped organize ICAPS. AAAI elected him a Fellow in 2010. Nebel retired in April 2022.
- Now at
- University of Freiburg
- Works
- 313
- Citations
- 11,367
- h-index
- 53
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1980–1989
Training in computer science
Nebel completed a computing diploma at Hamburg in 1980 and a doctorate at Saarland in 1989. He worked on AI projects at several institutions during the 1980s and early 1990s, including DFKI. These were successive research settings in his early career.
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1993–2022
University AI research
Nebel held a professorship at Ulm from 1993 to 1996, followed by a Freiburg professorship from 1996 to 2022. His research interests include knowledge representation, AI planning and robotics. He also participated in work on system verification and spatial cognition.
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2001–2010
Research community service
Nebel chaired IJCAI in 2001 and jointly organized ICAPS in 2008. AAAI elected him a Fellow in 2010, recognizing knowledge representation, reasoning, planning, robotics and service. These activities supported several parts of the AI research community.
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2022
Retirement
Nebel retired in April 2022. He also received an ACM fellowship and an AI service award in 2022.
Sources and credits
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