Hans-Jörg Schek
Vitae
From 1988 to 2005 Hans-Jörg Schek has been full Professor of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich and head of the Institute of Information Systems in the Computer Science Department.
Since 2002 he has also been a Professor at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Innsbruck, Austria.
Prof. Schek was born in Hannover, Germany. He studied mathematics at the University of Stuttgart (Diploma in 1968) and earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering in 1972 also from the University of Stuttgart.
During this time he developed - together with his dissertation advisor, Professor Linkwitz - a new method for the computation of prestressed cable-net roofs and applied this method to the analysis of roofs at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. He joined the IBM Scientific Centre in Heidelberg as research member (1972-1978) and as project manager (1978-1983). There he investigated end-user-oriented interfaces and transferred increasingly into database system research with special emphasis on integration with information retrieval systems. During this period he also completed his habilitation and was given the venia legendi for computer methods for network computation from the University of Stuttgart in 1978. From 1983 to 1988 he was Full Professor (C4) at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The DASDBS database project that he established there is known for its contributions to data modeling (NF2 model) to multi-level transactions and to extensible spatial databases.
Since this time he has directed the database research group at ETH Zurich. His research interests include data models, interoperability of databases and cooperation with application systems, generic, extensible object managers, and transaction management. More information can be found in the ETH archive under www.dbs.ethz.ch. Prof. Schek was one of the 21 members of the international VLDB Endowment from 1998 to 2006. He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the VLDB Journal. He is an ACM Fellow since 2000.
Hans-Jörg Schek is actively participating in the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, where he is coordinating the Work Package on a prototype Digital Library Management System (DELOS DLMS). He is also a member of the Scientific Board of DELOS. In his role of a DELOS participant, Hans-Jörg Schek is affiliated with the DBIS group at U Konstanz.
Contact
| schek@inf.ethz.ch |