• Principle Investigator of the project “Optimizing Explicit and Implicit Buffer Management”, which is funded by the DFG for three years.
  • (Co-)Principle Investigator of the project “Declarative Performance for Datalog”, which is funded by the DFG for three years. The project is a join work with (Co-)PI Prof. Sebastian Erdweg and the Programming Languages Group of JGU Mainz.
  • Principle Investigator (while being at Saarland University) of the project “ChainifyDB“, which is funded by BMBF with 840.000€. See Press Release.
  • Recipient of two NVIDIA GPU Grants.
  • Nomination by the faculty for “Lehrpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz 2024”.
  • VLDB Best Paper Award 2014.
  • November 2020 – Today
    Professor of Computer Science
    Head of the Information Systems and Databases Group, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
  • January 2017 – September 2020
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Big Data Analytics Group, Saarland University
  • January 2013 – December 2016
    Ph.D. in Computer Science (summa cum laude)
    Saarland University
  • November 2010 – January 2013
    M.Sc. in Computer Science
    Saarland University
  • October 2007 – November 2010
    B.Sc. in Computer Science
    Saarland University

Please see the publications page for the list of publications.