Franz Baader (15 June 1959, Spalt) is a German computer scientist at Dresden University of Technology .He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1989 from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he was a teaching and research assistant for 4 years.
In 1989, he went to the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as a senior researcher and project leader.
In 1993 he became associate professor for computer science at RWTH Aachen, and in 2002 full professor for computer science at TU Dresden.