Martin is a postdoc at the data engineering systems chair of Prof. Rabl. He is responsible for the Hyrise project, two kids, and works on various database topics ranging from energy efficiency, to streaming, and progressive query processing. He did his — well aged — PhD at the chair of Prof. Plattner about the memory footprints of in-memory database systems. After his PhD he visited the University of California, Irvine (UCI) for half a year.