Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Erhard Rahm

• born 1959, in Heiligenmoschel, Germany
• school education: Grundschule Heiligenmoschel, Hauptschule Otterberg, Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium Kaiserslautern
• 6/78 Abitur, Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium Kaiserslautern
• 7/78-9/79 military service
• 10/79-11/84 Study of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
• 11/84: Master degree in Computer Science, Univ. of Kaiserslautern
• 12/84-6/88 Research Associate  in Dept. of  Computer Science, Database group (Prof. Haerder), Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
• 4/88 Ph.D. degree in Computer Science  (Dr.-Ing.); Dissertation on concurrency/coherency control in Shared Disk DBMS
• 7/88 - 6/89 Visiting scientist  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA, Large Systems department; cooperation Christos Nikolaou, Donald Ferguson and Alex Thomasian
• 7/89 - 3/94 Assistant professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Kaiserslautern
• 6/93 Habilitation degree in Computer Science; habilitation thesis on "Architecture of high-performance transaction systems"
• since 4/94 Full professor for Computer Science and head of the Database group, University of Leipzig
• 10/96 - 10/99 Chair of the Computer Science Department and vice dean of the faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Univ. of Leipzig
• 4/97 - 3/99 First speaker of the Leipziger Informatik-Verbund LIV, a  computer science center to improve the innovation transfer between university and industry, especially within the Leipzig area.
• 2000, 2005 Sabbaticals at Microsoft Research (database group), cooperation with Phil Bernstein
• since 2002: member of the directorial board of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, Leipzig
• since 2010: director of the of the Web Data Integration (WDI) Lab, Leipzig
• Recipient of the VLDB 2011 Ten Year Best Paper ) and ICDE 2013 Influential Paper (“Test of Time”) Awards
• since 2014: Co-coordinator of national Big Data Center ScaDS Dresden/Leipzig
• married, 3 children, resident of Taucha