Selected Professional Activities

1. PCs

   • 2013: CIDR BTW
   • 2012: PVLDB/VLDB ICDE DBTest
   • 2011: ICDE EDBT BTW CIKM
   • 2010: VLDB ICDE
   • 2009: VLDB VLDB PhD Workshop BTW ICDE EDBT
   • 2008: VLDB SIGMOD WWW EDBT PIM
   • 2007: VLDB  VLDB PhD Workshop BTW ICDE 
   • 2006: ICDE CIKM

2. Referee for Conferences

   • 2012: PVLDB/VLDB
   • 2009: SIGMOD 
   • 2007: SIGKDD SIGMOD ICDE 
   • 2006: VLDB SIGMOD
   • 2005: SIGMOD
   • 2004: VLDB

3. Referee for Journals

   • 2011: VLDB Journal
   • 2010: TKDE
   • 2009: VLDB Journal TKDE ACM Computing Surveys
   • 2007: TODS
   • 2006: CACM TODS
   • 2005: TODS

4. Chair

   • 2014: VLDB, PC Co-Chair of Experiments and Analysis Track

Selected Talks/Awards/Grants

• Busy Beaver Award for best advanced lecture in computer science: Database Systems, SoSe 2011.
• BMBF VIP Grant for OctopusDB covering 1.1 million Euros; Press release: German English Nov 2011 - Oct 2014
• 
  Panel on "Developing and realizing your big idea"
  SIGMOD 2011, New Researcher Symposium, Athens, June 2011.
  
• One Size Fits All?
  Panel on '"One Size Fits All": An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?'
  BTW 2011, Kaiserslautern, March 2011.
  
• Towards a One Size Fits All Database Architecture (youtube).
  CIDR 2011, Asilomar, January 2011,
  Best Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award
• The Bowyers (youtube mov).
  CIDR 2011, Gong Show, Asilomar, January 2011,
  Best Presentation Award
• OctopusDB: Towards a One Size Fits All Database System
  
  • Teradata, Rancho Bernardo, January 2011
  • SAP Research, Palo Alto, December 2010
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, December 2010
  • EMC/Greenplum, San Mateo, December 2010
  • Oracle, Redwood Shores, December 2010
• Hadoop++: Making a Yellow Elephant Run Like a Cheetah (Without It Even Noticing). slides
  
  • TU Berlin, DBIS Group, January 2011
  • Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, January 2011
  • IBM Research Center, Almaden, December 2010
  • Oracle, Redwood Shores, December 2010
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, December 2010
  • MPI-SWS, Saarbruecken, December 2010
  • VLDB 2010, Singapore, September 2010
• Invited Tutorial: "The iMeMex Dataspace Management System: Architecture, Concepts, and Lessons Learned".
  26th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD), Birmingham, July 7-9, 2009. slides
• Keynote: "Aktuelle Trends: Eine Reise von Hauptspeicherdatenbanken zu Dataspace Management Systemen".
  Conference on Ultra Large Databases ULDB 2007, Offenbach, Germany, July 2, 2007. slides
  Selected Best Talk

CV

• 04/2010-03/2012: Dean of Teaching for Computer Science
• since 10/2008: Associate Professor at Saarland University, Chair of Information Systems Group, Germany
• 09/2004 - 09/2008: Senior Research Associate ('Oberassistent') at ETH Zurich, Systems Group, Prof. Kossmann
• Software Engineer at SAP AG, Walldorf (OLAP and IR Technology, BI Accelerator) 2003-2004
• Ph.D. in Computer Science 2002
• Visiting Researcher at ETH Zurich 09/2001, Prof. Widmayer
• Ph.D. student 1999-2002 at University of Marburg, DB Research Group, Prof. Seeger
• Studies in Computer and Media Science 1993-1999 at University of Marburg
• born 1972, married, three children (Laurin, Elina, and Daniel)

Current Students

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Former Students

• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles (Ph.D. Thesis, 2005-2008, first employment: PostDoc at Cornell Universiy; last seen: Assistant professor at DIKU)