2024 - Joined the Faculty of TU Berlin

2021 -2023

Visiting Academic at Amazon

2020 -2024
Chair of the Databases and Information Systems Group, Leibniz Universität Hannover

2016 - 2020
Juniorprofessor
Big Data Management Group (BigDaMa), TU Berlin

2014 - 2016
Postdoc at MIT

2013 - 2013
Research Associate at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)

2010 - 2014
PhD Student at HPI

2010 - 2014

Dr. rer. nat. from Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam (Universität Potsdam)

2008 - 2010

MSc from Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam (Universität Potsdam)

2005 - 2008

BSc from Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam (Universität Potsdam)

• First Prize of the GI Data Science Challenges, BTW 2023, with Dakai Men, Jannis Becktepe, Mahdi Esmailoghli and David Bermbach
• SIGMOD 2019 Reproducibility Award for "Raha: A Configuration-free Error Detection System", with Mohammad Mahdavi, Ziawasch Abedjan, Raul C-Fernandez, Sam Madden, Mourad Ouzzani, Michael Stonebraker, Nan Tang
• GI Juniorfellow 2019
• First Prize of the GI Data Science Challenges, BTW 2019, "Explanation of Air Pollution Using External Data Sources." with Mahdi Esmailoghli, Sergey Redyuk, Ricardo Martinez, Ariane Ziehn, Ziawasch Abedjan, Tilmann Rabl, Volker Markl
• Best Demo Award, SIGMOD 2015:"DataXFormer:An Interactive Data Transformation Tool" with John Morcos, Ihab Ilyas, Mourad Ouzzani, Paolo Papotti, and Michael Stonebraker
• Best Dissertation Award 2013/2014, University of Potsdam, Germany (Preis der Universitaetsgesellschaft Potsdam e.V.)
• Best Student Paper Award, CIKM 2014: "DFD: Efficient Discovery of Functional Dependencies" with Patrick Schulze and Felix Naumann
• Best Workshop Paper Award, Know@LOD 2014: "Amending RDF Entities with new Facts", with Felix Naumann
• Scholarship of the HPI Research School

• Advisory Board COMET Know Center Graz
• ACM and GI member
• L3S member
• BIFOLD fellow
• SIGMOD 2019 proceedings chair
• VLDB 2020 PhD Workshop co-chair
• Co-Sponsorship Chair ICDE 2023
• Co-Program Chair LWDA 2022
• CIDR 2017 publicity chair, CIDR 2019-2023 website chair
• Program Committee:
  • SIGMOD 2016 (Demo), 2018, 2019 (Demo), 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • ICDE 2018 (Poster), 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 (Industry)
  • PVLDB 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • CIKM
    • PC 2019, 2020
    • Senior PC 2021, 2022, 2023
  • EDBT 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 (Senior PC)
  • BTW 2019, 2021
  • CIDR 2019 
  • KDD 2021, 2022
• Reviewing Activity:
  • Journal of Data and Information Quality
  • Information Systems Journal
  • ACM Transactions on the Web
  • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • VLDBJ
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Information Systems
  • Datenbankspektrum