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Selected Professional Activities

  1. PCs

  2. Referee for Conferences

  3. Referee for Journals

  4. Associate Editor

    • 2014: PVLDB Experiments and Analysis Track

Selected Talks/Awards/Grants

  • Was ist eigentlich ein Science Slam? (youtube)
    Februar 2013
  • say No! No! and No! (youtube)
    CIDR 2013, Gong Show, Asilomar, January 2013,
    Best Presentation Award
  • Efficiently Indexing AND Querying Big Data in Hadoop MapReduce slides
    • CNRS, France, December 2012
    • TUM, Germany, November 2012
    • USI, Switzerland, October 2012
  • Ich will doch nur spielen! (Science Slam)
    • 2 of 3 rounds, CeBit Science Slam, 09-03-13 (youtube)
    • German Science Slam Finals, Karlsruhe, ZKM, 09-11-12 (entire event in ARD Mediathek, JD @36:15)
    • 1st place, Southern German Science Slam Finals, Ulm (JD); qualification for federal finals on Nov 9 at ZKM in Karlsruhe (press: swp)
    • 1st place, Saarbrücken Science Slam, 18-09-12 (press: SR2 Radio)
    • 1st place, Stuttgart Science Slam, 30-06-12
    • 1st place, IdeenExpo Science Slam, Hannover, 11-06-12, qualification for finals at IdeenExpo 2013 (youtube)
    • 2nd place, Saarbrücken Science Slam, 01-06-12 (press: SR TV, starting at 16:48; SBZ)
    • 2nd place, Köln Science Slam, 31-05-12
    • 1st place, Berlin Science Slam, 28-05-12
    • 2nd place, Ulm Science Slam, 16-05-12
    • 1st place, Trier Science Slam, 11-05-12
  • 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).
    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

  • since 2012: Full Professor
  • 2010-2012: Dean of Teaching for Computer Science
  • 2008-2012: Associate Professor, CS, Saarland University, Chair of Information Systems Group
  • 2004-2008: Senior Research Associate ('Oberassistent'), ETH Zurich, Systems Group, Prof. Kossmann
  • 2003-2004: Software Engineer, SAP AG, OLAP and IR Technology, BI Accelerator
  • 1999-2002: Ph.D., CS, U Marburg, DB Research Group, Prof. Seeger
  • 1993-1999: Diplom, CS, U Marburg
  • born 1972, married, three children (Laurin, Elina, and Daniel)

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