Klaus R. Dittrich

Klaus R. Dittrich is a professor und director at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and heads the database technology research group at this place. His main areas of interest include architectural issues in database management systems and their environment, system integration issues and advanced DBMS functionality.

From the mid-eighties, he has been an early researcher and propagator of bringing object technology to databases, and a coauthor of the "The Object-Oriented Database System Manifesto".

He has lectured and published widely and has been a visiting scholar at places like IBM Research, HP Labs, Boeing and the universities of Stanford, Milano, Aalborg und Nice-Sophia Antipolis. He has been engaged in various national and international cooperation projects and regularly consults with industries and government agencies.

Among other professional activities, he is the former president of SI (Swiss Informatics Society), board member of ICTswitzerland and since recently co-editor-in-chief of the "Very Large Data Base Journal", the leading scientific journal in its area.

Dittrich's doctoral degree is from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.