Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Theobald has been appointed as a Professor of Computer Science with a focus on “Big Data” by the , at the (FSTM), in 2017. He previously held positions as a Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for (DBIS) at the , and as a Professor in the (ADReM) group at the . He obtained a doctoral degree from the in Saarbrücken in 2006 and subsequently spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the “”. Between 2008-2012, Martin led the research group for “Ranking and Uncertain Data Management” at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.University of LuxembourgFaculty of Science, Technology and Medicine Databases and Information Systems University of Ulm Advanced Database Research and Modeling University of Antwerp Max Planck Institute for Informatics Stanford University Infolab
Martin currently is head of the “” research group at the University of Luxembourg. He has served as PC member, reviewer and organizer for more than 100 international conferences, workshops and journals, including SIGMOD, SIGKDD, SIGIR, VLDB, ICDE, CIKM, WSDM, TKDE, TODS, and many others. He has been an Area Editor for Elsevier’s “” between 2013-2018, and for between 2020-2021.Big Data Information Systems PVLDB
Awards & Honors
• Teaching Award by the University of Luxembourg, 2020
• Google Focused Research Award (together with R. Gemulla and G. Weikum), 2010
• ACM SIGMOD “Jim Gray” Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), 2007
• GI-DBIS Dissertation Award, 2006
• Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, 2006
Current Courses
• Bachelor
– Information Management I-III (BiCS, 3rd-5th semester)
• Master
– Cloud Computing & NoSQL Databases (MaDS, 1st semester)
– Big Data Analytics (MiCS & MaDS, 2nd semester)
External Profiles
• Google Scholar
• DBLP
• LinkedIn
