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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Ruf
Research interests
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Ruf

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Ruf was a member of the research staff at inf6 from 1986 to 1996. He holds a master's degree (Diplom-Informatiker, 1986) and a Ph.D.(Dr.-Ing., 1991) in computer science (database systems). From Feb. 1992 until Feb. 1993, he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, where he worked in the Advanced Manufacturing Process Control group. In 1996, he finished his habilitation and earned the venia legendi for computer science. From 1996 through 2006, he was division manager for systems development at GfK Marketing Services in Nuremberg. In 2006, he became Managing Director of GfK Marketing Services and joined the Global Retail & Technology Board at GfK. Since 1996, he regularly teaches courses on database systems and data warehousing at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and other institutions. In 2006, he was appointed associate professor (apl. Prof.) at the the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Research interests

  • Data Warehousing
  • Scientific Database Management
  • Application-oriented Data Modelling
  • Query Optimization

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