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As a student of computer science, I was member of a project group which built a prototype of an extensible spatial database system called the Gral system. Within my Diploma thesis I dealt with the design of graphical user interfaces for spatial database systems and implemented a special instance of such an interface for the Gral system. In 1990 I obtained my Diploma degree in computer science from the University of Dortmund, Germany.
After a one-year episode as programmer and system administrator I became "wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (research associate) at FernUniversität Hagen, Germany. Here I received my Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the computer science department in December 1995. The topic of my doctoral thesis was the design and implementation of spatial data types that can be integrated in any kind of extensible database system. This led to the concept of realm as a discrete geometric basis for the definition of spatial data types and to the ROSE algebra built on top of realms and offering complex spatial data types and a comprehensive set of spatial operations and predicates.
After that I worked between 1996 and 2001 as a "Hochschulassistent" (research assistent, post doc) at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany. In this period I started my work on spatio-temporal databases and fuzzy spatial databases.
Since January 2002 I have been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. Especially, I am a member of the Database Systems Research and Development Center.