Affiliations

• Member of the Institute for Applied Phogrammetry and Geoinformatics (IAPG)
• Chair of the Society of Geoinformatics in Northern Germany (GiN)
• Member of the Oldenburg Research and Development Institute for Computer Science (OFFIS)
• Member of the advisory board of the Institute for Pipeline Construction (IRO)

News

• The Kezhia H. murder case and the IAPG's contribution to solving it is shown in a 25-minute MDR program, which is available in the ARD media library.
• New episode of the audio podcast “Hirn gehört” published: Geoinformatics in action: From criminal cases to dragonfly occurrences to ancient sea routes
• The joint project ProSaDi (Provenance and Collection Research Digital) has started.

Teaching Activities

Modules

• Big Data
• Database Systems
• Spatial Data Management
• Geographic Information Systems:  Standards and Services
• GIS Programming
• Project Geoinformatics
• Web Engineering

Theses

• Bachelor and master theses at Jade University

Program Manager

• Master "Spatial Informaton Science"

Further Education

• 2013-2023: Certificate of Advanced Studies: Spatial Informations Systems, ETH Zürich

Research

Research Interests

• Spatial database systems: storage and retrieval of spatial and spatio-temporal data
• Spatial data management: geospatial services, standards
• Geospatial sensor data: processing and analysis
• Geospatial applications: location-based services, mobile and web-based applications, volunteered geographic information (VGI)

Projects

• Current and completed projects at IAPG
• Network-based generator of moving objects

Publications

• Books and papers in books, journals and proceedings
• Text book "Geodatenbanksysteme in Theorie und Praxis"
• Presentations (since 2006)

Reviewer for Research Grants

• 2003-2012 BMBF program "Forschung an Fachhochschulen mit Unternehmen" (FHprofUnt, FH³, aFuE)

Reviews for International Journals and Conferences

• Member of the editorial board of the gis.Science journal
• Computer Journal, GeoInformatica, GIS.Science, Information Processing Letters, JLBS, JPRS, PFG, TGIS, TKDE, TODS, VLDB Journal etc.
• BTW, EDBT, ACM SIGMOD, VLDB etc.

• ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: ACM GIS 2002 - ACM GIS 2005 - ACM GIS 2006 - ACM GIS 2007 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2008 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2009 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2010 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2011 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2012 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2013 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018 - ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019
• ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation: GeoSim 2018 - GeoSim 2020 - GeoSim 2022 - GeoSim 2024
• AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: AGILE 2010 - AGILE 2011 - AGILE 2012 - AGILE 2013 - AGILE 2014 - AGILE 2015 - AGILE 2016 - AGILE 2017 - AGILE 2018 - AGILE 2019 - AGILE 2020 - AGILE 2021 - AGILE 2022 - AGILE 2023 - AGILE 2024
• BTW-Workshop on Big (and Small) Data in Science and Humanities: BigDS 2015 - BigDS 2017 - BigDS 2019 - BigDS 2023
• Geoinformatik 2009 - Geoinformatik 2010 - Geoinformatik 2011 - Geoinformatik 2012 - Geoinformatik 2013 - Geoinformatik 2014 - Geoinformatik 2016
• International Conference on Geographic Information Science: GIScience 2023
• International Conference on Mobile Data Management: MDM 2007 - MDM 2014 - MDM 2015
• International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases: SSTD 2001 - SSTD 2003 - SSTD 2007 - SSTD 2009 - SSTD 2011
• International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: W2GIS 2008 - W2GIS 2009 - W2GIS 2011 - W2GIS 2012 - W2GIS 2013 - W2GIS 2014 - W2GIS 2015

Administration

• Member of the department council
• Data protection officer for Oldenburg and Elsfleth campus

Curriculum Vitae

• 1964: born in Bremen
• 1985-1990: Studies of computer science, University of Bremen, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
  • thesis: "Map Overlay of Thematic Maps Supported by Spatial Access Methods"
• 1990-1991: Research assistent, University of Bremen
  • topic: Database System of Biological Indications
• 1991-1995: Research and teaching assistent, Database and Information System Group of the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Munich in Munich
  • topic: query processing in spatial database systems
  • 1994: Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in computer science
  • thesis: "spatial join in spatial database systems"
• 1995-1999: Project manager in the information system department of the Mannesmann Autocom GmbH in Düsseldorf
  • GIS for traffic information and emergency & breakdown services
  • dynamic traffic information via web
• since 1999: Professor for geoinformatics at the University of Applied Sciences in Oldenburg
  • 2008-2012 Dean of studies of the Department of Geoinformation

• Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI):
  • Fachgruppe Datenbanksysteme
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM):
  • SIG on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
  • SIGSPATIAL
• Gesellschaft für Geoinformatik (GfGI)
• Hochschullehrerbund (HLB)