Wolfgang Lehner

Wolfgang Lehner is a Full Professor and head of the Database Research Group at TU Dresden (since 2002/10), and a Professor in the Data Engineering, Science and Systems Group at Aalborg University (since 2024/05). He has held visiting scientist roles at SAP, Microsoft Research, IBM Almaden, and other institutions, alongside leadership as Director of the Institute of Systems Architecture at TU Dresden (2006–2020, 2022–present).

• Fields of Scholarship
• Database technology for openData platforms
• Advanced analytics support in databases
• Realtime analytics in data warehouses
• Main-memory database systems for mixed workloads

His awards include the DFG Reinhart Koselleck Program (2021), Facebook Next-Generation Data Infrastructure Award (2021), and multiple ACM SIGMOD, SAP, IBM, and Huawei awards. He leads the TU Dresden Database Research Group and has directed the Institute of Systems Architecture since 2022/11.