Boards, Service, and Memberships

[ standardization and other bodies | program committees | service | 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
- 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:

Goeinformatik 2012, Münster, Germany, 2012
Integrating Sensor-Web and Web-based Geoprocessing, AGILE workshop, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2011
Geometric Objects in Databases and Information Systems (GeoDBIS) 2011
Integrating Sensor-Web and Web-based Geoprocessing
XLDB 2011, Edinburgh, 2011
Workshop on Array Databases (co-located with EDBT/ICDT 2011) -- workshop chair, together with Bill Howe [ACM Digital Library]
ITBAM 2011 (Intl Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics)
SSTDM 2010 (Intl Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
ITBAM 2010 (Intl Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics)
AST 2010 (Intl Conference on Advanced Science and Technology)
SSTDM 2009 (ICDM Intl Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
ICKM 2009 (Intl Conference on Knowledge Management)
DEXA 2009 (Intl Conference on Database and Expert System Applications)
DTA 2009 (Intl Conference on Database Theory and Application)
DB 2009 (Intl Conference on Advances in Databases); Conference Advisory Chair and reviewer
SSTDM 2008 (ICDM Intl Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining)
DTA 2008 (Intl Conference on Database Theory and Application)
Workshop on Mining Multidimensional Data
BIRD 2008 (Intl Conference on Bioinformatics Research and Development)
DEXA 2008 (Intl Conference on Database and Expert System Applications)
dg.o 2008 (Intl Digital Government Research Conference)
ICDE 2008 (Intl Conf on Data Engineering)
DEXA 2007 (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:

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