Since 1 February 2015 Prof. Dr. Martin Theobald has been the new full professor (W3) and co-director of the Institute of Databases and Information Systems (DBIS), Ulm University. Martin will take over database research and teaching at the DBIS institute, with a special focus on "Data Science".

Martin Theobald received a doctoral degree from Saarland University in 2006 and spent two years as a Post-Doc at the Stanford Infolab, USA. Subsequently, he worked as a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken until he received an appointment at the University of Antwerp in 2012. In Antwerp, Prof. Theobald is a member of the Advanced Database Research and Modelling research group.

The DBIS team wishes Martin a good start as well as success for his future activities at Ulm University.