- 1988 PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern.
- Since 1994 Chair for Databases at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Leipzig.
- Research stays at both the IBM Research Center in Hawthorne, NY, as well as Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.
- 2010 Foundation of the new WDI lab at the University of Leipzig, a third-party funded innovation lab on web data integration.
Current research areas include data integration, metadata and ontology management, and bio databases. See labs.dbs.uni-leipzig.de for current activities.
Technologies:
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