Biographic information
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Erhard Rahm
Biographic information
- born 1959, in Heiligenmoschel, Germany
- school education: Grundschule Heiligenmoschel, Hauptschule Otterberg, Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium Kaiserslautern
- 6/78 Abitur, Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium Kaiserslautern
7/78-9/79 military service
10/79-11/84 Study of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
11/84: Master degree in Computer Science, Univ. of Kaiserslautern
12/84-6/88 Research Associate in Dept. of Computer Science, Database group (Prof. Haerder), Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
- 4/88 Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (Dr.-Ing.); Dissertation on concurrency/coherency control in Shared Disk DBMS
- 7/88 - 6/89 Visiting scientist IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA, Large Systems department; cooperation Christos Nikolaou, Donald Ferguson and Alex Thomasian
- 7/89 - 3/94 Assistant professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Kaiserslautern
6/93 Habilitation degree in Computer Science; habilitation thesis on "Architecture of high-performance transaction systems"
since 4/94 Full professor for Computer Science and head of the Database group, University of Leipzig
- 10/96 - 10/99 Chair of the Computer Science Department and vice dean of the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Univ. of Leipzig
- 4/97 - 3/99 First speaker of the Leipziger Informatik-Verbund LIV, a computer science center to improve the innovation transfer between university and industry, especially within the Leipzig area.
- 2000, 2005 Sabbaticals at Microsoft Research (database group), cooperation with Phil Bernstein
- since 2002: member of the directorial board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, Leipzig
- since 2010: director of the of the Web Data Integration (WDI) Lab, Leipzig
- Recipient of the VLDB 2011 Ten Year Best Paper ) and ICDE 2013 Influential Paper (“Test of Time”) Awards
since 2014: Co-coordinator of national Big Data Center ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig
married, 3 children, resident of Taucha
Address
Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm Dept. of Computer Science University of Leipzig 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone: +49-341-97/32 221, Fax: … 32 209 E-mail: rahm at informatik.uni-leipzig.de