Our group includes PostDocs, PhD students, and student assistants, and is headed by Prof. Felix Naumann. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Felix Naumann.
For bachelor students we offer German lectures on database systems in addition to paper- or project-oriented seminars. Within a one-year bachelor project, students finalize their studies in cooperation with external partners. For master students we offer courses on information integration, data profiling, and information retrieval enhanced by specialized seminars, master projects and we advise master theses.
Most of our research is conducted in the context of larger research projects, in collaboration across students, across groups, and across universities. We strive to make available most of our datasets and source code.
Speaker of the information systems and database section of the German computer science association - Fachbereich DBIS der GI and member of the GI steering committee (since 2022)
Speaker of the database group of the German computer science association - Fachgruppe Datenbanken der GI (2017 - 2022)
Member of the SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award Committee 2018 and 2019
Member of the jury of the 28. Bundeswettbewerb Informatik 2010 (BWInf)
Graduated PhD students
As advisor (in reverse chronological order)
Dr. Mazhar Hameed, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2024
Dr. Leon Bornemann-Paulus, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2024 last seen as IT Consultant for Data Engineering & Data Science at Netlight
Dr. Gerardo Vitagliano, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2023 last seen as Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT
Dr. Nitisha Jain, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2023 last seen as Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College, London
Dr. Uwe Draisbach, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2022 Last seen as freelancing SAP consultant
Dr. Lan Jiang, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2022 last seen as Data Scientist at StepStone
Dr. Tim Repke, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2022 last seen as PostDoc at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
Dr. Konstantina Lazaridou, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2021 last seen as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Ella Media AG
Dr. Michael Loster, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2021 last seen as Founding Engineer at Noetica AI
Dr. Julian Risch, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2020 last seen as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at deepset
Dr. Ioannis Koumarelas, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2020 last seen as Data Scientist at Veeva Systems
Prof. Dr. Hazar Harmouch, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2020 last seen as Assistant Professor at University of Amsterdam
Dr. Sebastian Kruse, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2018 last seen as Software Engineer at Google, Munich
Dr. Zhe Zuo, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2018 last seen as Senior Data Scientist at Siemens, Berlin
Dr. Toni Grütze, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2018 last seen as independent software developer
Dr. Tobias Zieger (geb. Vogel), Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2018 last seen as Senior Software Engineer at Sereene
Dr. Thorsten Papenbrock, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 2017 GI DBIS Best Dissertation Award; last seen as full professor at Marburg University
Dr. Arvid Heise, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2015 last seen as Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Dr. Alexander Albrecht, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2014 last seen at: Co-founder bakdata
Dr. Johannes Lorey, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2014 last seen at: USU AG, Möglingen
Prof. Dr. Ziawasch Abedjan, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2014 Awarded for best dissertation at University of Potsdam in 2014 last seen as full professor at TU Berlin
Dr. Christoph Böhm, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2013 last seen as Data Engineer and Co-founder of bakdata
Dr. Jana Bauckmann, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2013 last seen at: Wissenschaftliches Institut der AOK
Dr. Dustin Lange, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2013 last seen at: Amazon, Berlin
Dr. Mohammed AbuJarour, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2011 last seen as full professor at XU Exponential University Potsdam
Dr. Armin Roth, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2010 last seen as Senior Bioinformatician at CureVac
Dr. Falk Brauer, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2010 last seen as SVP at Zilliant
Dr. Jens Bleiholder, Hasso Plattner Institut, University of Potsdam, 2010 last seen at: Opitz Consulting, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Melanie Herschel (formerly Weis), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2007 last seen as full professor at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
Dr. Alexander Bilke (co-supervision with Herbert Weber), Technische Universität Berlin, 2006 last seen as lead business consultant at msg Systems AG
As reviewer
Larissa Capobianco Shimomura, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2024
Tommaso Teofili, Universita Roma Tre, 2022
Stefano Cirillo, University of Salerno, 2022
Alieh Saeedi, University of Leipzig, 2021
Fabian Fier, HU Berlin, 2021
Jan-Christoph Kalo, TU Braunschweig, 2021
Elvis Koci, TU Dresden and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 2020
Larysa Visengeriyeva, Technische Universität Berlin, 2020
Kashyap Popat, Saarland University, 2019
Jeffrey Fischer, Australian National University, 2019
Erkang Zhu, University of Toronto, 2019
Loredana Caruccio, University of Salerno, 2018
Thomas Rebele, Télécom ParisTech, 2018
Astrid Rheinländer, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2017
Dimitra Papadimitriou, University of Trento, 2017
Daniel Fleischhacker, Universität Mannheim, 2015
Ralf Heese, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2015
Amrapali Zaveri, Universität Leipzig, 2015
Lars Kolb, Universität Leipzig, 2014
Xie Xiaoheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2012
Daniel Warneke, Technische Universität Berlin, 2011
Thomas Kabisch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2011
Katja Hose, Technische Universität Ilmenau, 2009
Paolo Carreira, Universidade de Lisboa, 2008
Andreas Thor, Universität Leipzig, 2008
Chokri ben Necib, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2007
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, 2005
For a list of graduated Master students, see here.
Education
1990-1997 Mathematics and Economics at the University of Technology Berlin; Diploma thesis "Graph-based Algorithms for Query Optimization on Parallel Databases"
2000 Promotion (PhD.), Title of thesis: "Quality-driven Query Answering for Integrated Information Systems", published by Springer
Awards
Individual awards
GI Dissertationspreis 2000, awarded annually by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German association for computer sciences) for the best computer science PhD. thesis.
IBM Research Division Award, 2002
Preis des Fachschaftsrats IT Systems Engineering 2014
Fakultätspreis für herausragende Lehre 2015 der Math.-Nat. Fakultät der Universität Potsdam
Distinguished Associate Editor Award - VLDB 2018
Outstanding Reviewer Award - ICDE 2019
Distinguished ACM member since 2021
Distinguished Reviewer Award - SIGMOD 2023
Major Grants and Funding
DFG Nachwuchsforschergruppe 2003 - 2008
IBM SUR Grant, 2007
Schufa, 2007-2011
IBM CAS Grant, 2008-2009
DFG Forschergruppe Stratosphere 2010-2016
IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award 2010
Awards by students and group awards
1st place at IEEE Services Cup 2008
1st place for Jan Hegewald at german IQ Best Master Degree competition 2008
3rd place at IEEE Services Cup 2009
1st place Billion Triples Challenge at ISWC 2010
3rd place at INEX Web Service Discovery Track 2010
1st place for Uwe Draisbach at german IQ Best Master Degree competition 2010
1st place for Daniel Rinser at german IQ Best Master Degree competition 2011
Honorable mention at iSemantics Triplification Challenge 2010
Christoph Böhm receives IBM PhD student fellowship in 2011 and in 2012
Runner up for Best Paper Award at BTW 2013
Best workshop papers at USEWOD 2013, PROFILES 2014, and Know@LOD 2014
Best Student Paper Award at CIKM 2014
Dissertationspreis der Universität Potsdam 2014 für Dr. Ziawasch Abedjan
TDWI Award 2015, 1st place for Markus Freitag (Master thesis)
1st place at the Ideenwettbewerb IT-Gipfel for "Data Profiling with Metanome", 2016
Best paper award at ICADL 2018
GI DBIS Best Dissertation Award 2019 for Thorsten Papenbrock
Better World Award UP by Julian Risch 2021
Best paper award at EDBT 2024 for our Tasheeh paper