2026 Wolfgang Thomas: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	40	9056	8800	448	436	174	13058

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Computer Science

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13058

Overview

Wolfgang Thomas is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany and focuses primarily on computer science, with significant contributions spanning over 21 publications. Their research activity is concentrated in computational theory and mathematics, artificial intelligence, as well as interdisciplinary work involving infectious diseases and molecular biology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

semigroups and automata theory
Logic, programming, and type systems
Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
Advanced Algebra and Logic
Formal Methods in Verification
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
DNA and Biological Computing

Wolfgang Thomas has co-authored extensively with several researchers. Frequent collaborators include:

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus
Jörg Flum
Christof Löding
Benedikt Brütsch
Caroline Clees

The scientist has published their work in a variety of scholarly venues such as:

Fundamenta Informaticae
arXiv (Cornell University)
Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde
International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
Deutsche Dermatologie

Examples of Wolfgang Thomas's published papers include:

"Solving Infinite Games in the Baire Space," 2022, Fundamenta Informaticae
"Solving Infinite Games in the Baire Space," 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Schmerzhafte Lymphadenopathie und Fieber nach Zeckenbiss," 2022, Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde
"On the Boolean Closure of Deterministic Top-Down Tree Automata," 2023, International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
"Rückkehr einer vergessenen Erkrankung?," 2023, Deutsche Dermatologie

In addition to articles, Wolfgang Thomas has authored books, including a publication with Springer Nature titled Mathematical Logic in 2021.

Best Publications

Automata on infinite objects

Wolfgang Thomas

3335
Citations
Languages, automata, and logic

Wolfgang Thomas

1399
Citations
Mathematical Logic

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus;Wolfgang Thomas

1334
Citations
Automata logics, and infinite games: a guide to current research

Erich Grädel;Wolfgang Thomas;Thomas Wilke

917
Citations
Automata Logics, and Infinite Games

Erich Grädel;Wolfgang Thomas;Thomas Wilke

605
Citations
On the synthesis of strategies in infinite games

Wolfgang Thomas

546
Citations
Classifying regular events in symbolic logic

Wolfgang Thomas

424
Citations
Einführung in die mathematische Logik

Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus;Jörg Flum;Wolfgang Thomas

351
Citations
Computation tree logic CTL * and path quantifiers in the monadic theory of the binary tree

Thilo Hafer;Wolfgang Thomas

210
Citations
Infinite Games and Verification

Wolfgang Thomas

167
Citations
Monadic second-order logic over rectangular pictures and recognizability by tiling systems

Dora Giammarresi;Antonio Restivo;Sebastian Seibert;Wolfgang Thomas

145
Citations
Star-free regular sets of ω-sequences

Wolfgang Thomas

143
Citations
A combinatorial approach to the theory of ω-automata

Wolfgang Thomas

125
Citations
Logical Specifications of Infinite Computations

Wolfgang Thomas;Helmut Lescow

124
Citations
Regular languages defined with generalized quantifiers

Howard Straubing;Denis Thérien;Wolfgang Thomas

122
Citations
Alternating Automata and Logics over Infinite Words

Christof Löding;Wolfgang Thomas

115
Citations
On Logics, Tilings, and Automata

Wolfgang Thomas

114
Citations
On the Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Game in Theoretical Computer Science

Wolfgang Thomas

106
Citations
Ehrenfeucht Games, the Composition Method, and the Monadic Theory of Ordinal Words

Wolfgang Thomas

102
Citations
Logical aspects in the study of tree languages

Wolfgang Thomas

101
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Grädel RWTH Aachen University

Henry Kautz University of Virginia

Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University

Susanne Albers Technical University of Munich

Mogens Nielsen Aarhus University

Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela Sapienza University of Rome

Yossi Matias Google (United States)

Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras

Benjamin Doerr École Polytechnique

James Gross Royal Institute of Technology

External Links

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