Christian S. Jensen is a Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg
University, Denmark. His research concerns data management and spans
issues of semantics, modeling, and performance. He is an IEEE Fellow
and a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the EDBT
Endowment, and the VLDB Endowment's Board of Trustees. He received Ib
Henriksen's Research Award 2001 for his research in mainly temporal
data management and Telenor's Nordic Research Award 2002 for his
research in mobile services.

He is an editor-in-chief of The VLDB Journal and has served on the
editorial boards of ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, and the IEEE Data Engineering
Bulletin. He was PC chair or co-chair for SSTD 2001, EDBT 2002, VLDB
2005, MobiDE 2006, MDM 2007, and TIME 2008.