Wolf-Tilo Balke#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2010 - 2013 appointed Head of Department for the Computer Science Department at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
• Since 2008 appointed to a tenured Full Professorship (Chair for Databases and Information Systems) at Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany
• Since 2008 appointed as director of the L3S Research Center at University of Hannover, Germany
• 2005 - 2008 lecturer at University of Hannover, Germany, in the field of databases and information systems
• 2004 - 2008 appointed as associate research director of the L3S Research Center at University of Hannover, Germany
• 2002 - 2004 appointed as research fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
• 2001 - 2002 lecturer at University of Augsburg, Germany, in the field of databases and information systems

• Query processing in databases and information systems
• User preferences and personalization
• Digital libraries and content syndication
• Cognitive user modeling and conceptualization
• Peer-to-peer networks and distributed retrieval

• 2010 "Best Paper Award" awarded at IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC’10), Shanghai, China
• 2007 "Best Paper Award" awarded at IEEE Conference on Research Challenges in Information Systems (RCIS'07), Ouarzazate, Morocco
• 2005 "Best Paper Award" awarded by the IEEE Technical Committe on Digital Libraries at European Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries (ECDL'05), Vienna, Austria
• 2002 admitted to "Emmy Noether Program of Excellence" by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 2001 "Science Award" awarded for best Ph.D. thesis 2001 by the University Foundation, University of Augsburg

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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