Boards, Service, and Memberships

Standardization and other bodies

Currently I am active in these bodies, where I am also editor of several standards:

• council member, Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information (CGI) of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS)
• member, ODBMS (Object Database Management Systems) expert panel
• member, Open Geospatial Consortium; functions:
  • chair, Web Coverage Processing Service Working Group
  • co-chair, Web Coverage Service Standard Working Group (WCS.SWG)
  • chair, Coverages Domain Working Group (Coverages.DWG)
• founding member and secretary, CODATA Germany
• member, advisory board, GDI-HB (state geo data infrastructure for Bremen)

• representative of Jacobs University in Kompetenzzentrum Geoinformatik Niedersachsen

Past activities:

• member, OHBM (International Organization of Human Brain Mapping) Task Force on Neuroinformatics
• member, EC-US Steering Committee on Neuroinformatics

Program Committees and other reviewing

Conferences:

• SSTDM 2010 (6th International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
• ITBAM 2010 (1st International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics)
• AST 2010 (2nd International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology)
• SSTDM 2009 (ICDM International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
• ICKM 2009 (6th International Conference on Knowledge Management)
• DEXA 2009 (20th Intl Conference on Database and Expert System Applications)
• DTA 2009 (International Conference on Database Theory and Application)
• DB 2009 (International Conference on Advances in Databases); Conference Advisory Chair and reviewer
• SSTDM 2008 (ICDM International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
• DTA 2008 (International Conference on Database Theory and Application)
• Workshop on Mining Multidimensional Data
• BIRD 2008 (International Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development)
• DEXA 2008 (19th Intl Conference on Database and Expert System Applications)
• dg.o 2008 (9th International Digital Government Research Conference)
• ICDE 2008 (24th Intl Conf on Data Engineering)
• DEXA 2007 (18th Intl Conference on Database and Expert System Applications)
• LCL Berlin, 2007

Conference organization:

• Seminario de Tecnologia de la Informacion en Geociencias (CGI-IUGS 2009), June 30 - July 01, 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Journals:

• Scientific Research and Essays
• Sensors
• Computational and Applied Mathematics
• International Journal On Advances in Software
• Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference)
• IEEE Internet Computing
• International Journal On Advances in Software

University Service

• hiring committee, professorship for Computer Science, Jacobs University, 2008
• hiring committee, professorship for Computational Science / Computer Science, Jacobs University, 2006
• speaker, IT Committee, Jacobs University

Memberships

• member, GI e.V. (German Informatics Society)
• Associated Member, FORWISS (as former assistant head of the Knowledge Bases research group)
• INI Graphics Alumnus