C.V.

ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention '07
Awarded at the SIGMOD Conference, Beijing, China, 2007.
GI DBIS Dissertation Award '07
Awarded at the BTW Conference, Aachen, Germany, 2007.
Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society '06
Awarded at the Annual Gathering of the Max Planck Society, Kiel, Germany, 2007.

I served as a reviewer and/or PC member in a number of international conferences, workshops and journals, including:
ACM-TODS, IEEE-IS, IEEE-TC, IJCNS, IJHIS, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, VLDB-J, WWW-J, ADBIS '07, ADBIS '08, DataX '08, DBRank'08, ECIR '07, ECIR '08, ECIR '09, EDBT '08, EDBT '09, ICDE '09, MUD '07, MUD '08, PersDL '07, PersDL '08, WIDM '07, WWW '09, XSym '06
I have been in the organizer's team of the international INEX (Initiative on the Evaluation of XML Retrieval) workshop for some year's now, with a focus on the document exploration phase and topic development using TopX.
INEX '06, INEX '07, INEX '08

INEX is an activity of the DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries.
For 2008, I'm organizing the brand new Efficiency Track in INEX, together with Ralf Schenkel.