My main research interests are knowledge representation and , and specifically, reasoning support for , ontology languages, such as , and decidable fragments of first-order logic. I have been actively working on the topic of together with , , and , and also did some theoretical research on extensions of description logics, modal logics, and ontology languages with expressive features, such as complex role inclusion axioms, graded modalities / counting, role conjunctions, and conjunctive queries. Studying theoretical properties of various reasoning tasks is an exciting research area, but it is even more satisfying to develop procedures that work in practice. I have been involved in the development of a few ontology reasoning systems, such as , , and ELK, which implement optimized , and I am interested in almost all aspects of algorithm optimizations, such as efficient data structures, goal-directed, incremental reasoning, and concurrency.