André Freitas is a lecturer at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Prior to Manchester, he was an associate researcher and lecturer at the Natural Language Processing and Semantic Computing Group at the University of Passau (Germany) at the Chair of Digital Libraries and Web Information Systems. Before joining Passau, he was part of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway where he did his PhD on Schema-agnostic Query Mechanisms for Large-Schema Databases. André holds a BSc. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil (2005). His main research areas include Question Answering, Schema-agnostic Database Query Mechanisms, Natural Language Query Mechanisms over Large-Schema Databases, Distributional Semantics, Hybrid Symbolic-Distributional Models, Approximate Reasoning and Knowledge Graphs. Before joining DERI, André worked as a research assistant (trainee) at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA. André worked as a software engineer, product designer and project manager in different industries including Oil & Gas Exploration, IT Security, Medical, Healthcare, Banking, Mining and Telecom.