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Johannes Knabe

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CTO Mentafy

Recently co-founded Mentafy to help students learn how to write with AI assistance instead of having essays ghost-written by AI from top to bottom.
04.2015 - 03.2022 PlagScan / Ouriginal CTO
Johannes Knabe co-founded PlagScan and oversaw the technical development as Chief Technology Officer. After the merger of PlagScan with Urkund he was also CTO of the combined company Ouriginal.
09.2011 - 03.2015 Deutsche Post DHL Senior Project Manager / Senior Expert Innovation Management
Before this he was a project and innovation manager at DHL/Deutsche Post.
07.2009 - 07.2011 Stadtteilschule Hamburg Finkenwerder Teachfirst
To improve fair chances for every child and with a keen interest in teaching, he joined Teachfirst and worked for two years at a school in Hamburg.
10.2005 - 06.2009 PhD in Computer Sciece, at the Adaptive Systems and BioComputation Research Groups, Science and Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Johannes has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire, UK for research on adaptive systems, more specifically Computational Genetic Regulatory Networks. There he was also involved in teaching students and supervising their thesis writing.
10.2001 - 03.2005 BSc in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
He holds a BSc in Cognitive Science degree from University of Osnabrück, Germany. Johannes' focus was on Artificial Intelligence as well as Computational Linguistics, but also as teaching assistant he got first insights into education.