Rudolf Seising received the MS degree in mathematics from the Ruhr-University of Bochum 1986 and the Ph.D. degree in philosophy of science from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) of Munich in 1995, and the habilitation degree of history of science from the LMU of Munich in 2004 for his work on the history of the theory of fuzzy sets.

He was scientific assistant for computer sciences at the University of the Armed Forces in Munich (1988 - 1995) and scientific assistant for history of sciences at the same university (1995-2002).
Since 2002, he is scientific assistant for medical expert and knowledge-based systems at the Univesity of Vienna Medical School resp. (since 2004) ofthe Medical University of Vienna.
Rudolf Seising is teaching philosophy and history of medicine, medical computer sciences and especially history of the theory of fuzzy sets.
His research interests include the philosophy and history of artificial intelligence.