Master in Mathematics, Technical University Dresden, 1975
PhD, Dr. rer. nat., Lomonossov-University Moskau, 1979
Advanced PhD, Dr. rer. nat. habil., Technical University Dresden, 1985
Associated Prof., Technical University Dresden, 1986-89
Full Prof., University Rostock, 1989-93
Visiting Professor, University Kuwait, 1988 - 1990, 2004
Full Prof., Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, 1993-2003
Visiting Professor, University Klagenfurt, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008
Visiting Professor, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2003
Visiting Professor, Massey University at Palmerston North, New Zealand 2006
Full Prof., Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, since 2003
Publications (until 2008):
3 books
19 editorials of international proceedings
292 scientific papers
18 tutorials
more than 300 talks given in conferences and colloquia world-wide
Honours
Kolmogorov Distinguished Professor at Lomonosov University, Moscov, since 2005
Peter Chen Award 2008, giftet by Elsevier
Scientific positions
Founder and Chair of the conferences
"Mathematical Fundamentals of Database
Systems" (later unified with ICDT)
LI> Co-Founder of the conferences
"Foundations of information and knowledge systems" and "Semantics in databases"
PC-Chair and Org Chair of 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling "ER'96" and Chair of 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling "ER'07"
PC-co-chair of more than a dozen other international conferences, e.g.,
WISE, EJC, NLDB, SDKB, FoIKS, ASM, ADBIS
Member in Program Committees of different conferences (until 2008: 197), e.g. ACM SIGMOD,
ADBC, ADBIS,
AI, BTW, CAiSE, CoopIS, EDBT, EJIMK, Emisa, ER, ICDT, INFO, IDBW,
MFDBS, NGITS, NLDB, ORM, SCCC, TFCS, WITS
Member of Steering Committees of more than a dozen international conferences, e.g., ADBIS, ASM, ER, FoIKS, NLDB
In the past: Founder and speaker of the Regional Group Cottbus, Association of Computer Science
(Gesellschaft für
Informatik)
Member of the Technology Council of the State Brandenburg