Arbeiten bei DIMA

"Die DIMA-Gruppe hat dank des Ehrgeizes ihrer Mitglieder eine hohe internationale Sichtbarkeit und strebt die Veröffentlichung von Papieren in Core-A*-Konferenzen und Zeitschriften an. Darüber hinaus ist DIMA eine Systemgruppe, die sich auf die Entwicklung von Prototypen neuer Wege zur Architektur von Datenverarbeitungssystemen konzentriert."

Sebastian Breß war von November 2015 bis Oktober 2020 Postdoktorand in der DIMA-Gruppe. Nach seiner Zeit am DIMA wechselte er als Senior Software Engineer zu Snowflake.

"My first impression about DIMA was that they were working on high impact research and that they placed great value in the development and engineering of real-world systems."

Asterios Katsifodimos held a senior researcher position at DIMA from 2013 to 2016. After his time at DIMA, Asterios first took a position at the SAP Innovation Center in Berlin and then joined TU Delft as an Assistant Professor.

"The DIMA staff members I met were very approachable. They took the time to explain their research, particularly, the system they were building in detail."

Sebastian Schelter was a PhD student at DIMA from 2011 to 2015 and held a senior researcher part time position until 2017. Afterwards, he joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist.

"Both the Stratosphere system and the opportunity to work abroad peaked my interest."

Chen Xu held a postdoctoral researcher position at DIMA from 2014 until 2018 under the auspices of the Berlin Big Data Center (BBDC). Afterwards, he joined East China Normal University (ECNU) as an Associate Professor.

"DIMA has great visibility in the database community, not just in Germany, but also around the world.
This makes building a strong network much easier."

Tilmann Rabl held a senior researcher and visiting professor position at DIMA from 2015 until 2019. Afterwards, he accepted a professorship at the Hasso Plattner Institut.

"I first learned about DIMA in 2012 when I met Volker Markl at the IBM Almaden Research Center. During my Master’s studies, I focused on data stream processing in Apache Flink, given my passion for database technologies and contributed to Flink's Streaming API. Subsequently I was hired as a research associate."

Jonas Traub was a research associate at the DIMA Group from 2015 to 2020. Afterwards, he joined SAP as a Senior Developer.

"During my Bachelor’s studies at DHBW Stuttgart, Prof. Markl invited a few of my fellow students and me to visit DIMA and learn about their research activities. The visit not only peaked my interest, it motivated me to subsequently join DIMA as a student assistant."

Martin Kiefer was a research associate at the DIMA Group until 2023. He left us to join Keebo, where he said he would be contributing his expertise in data summarization and help save them some money on cloud data warehouses. He is working from Berlin.

"Since joining DIMA my way of thinking has changed. In particular, I am better able to organize my time. Furthermore, my professional ambition has grown. I have set new goals, have big dreams, and feel aptly prepared to realize them."

Rudi is a research associate at the DIMA Group since 2021. Before that, he worked as a student research assistant and managed his own Software Campus project.

"DIMA is a very large data systems group, much larger than most others. As a result, it offers a stimulating environment with plenty of opportunities for growth through the interaction with fellow group members and undertaking different roles within the group. Furthermore, DIMA focuses on building full-fledged data processing systems that address real-world demands, which is challenging to achieve in smaller groups. Finally, the group has a strong presence in the international database community, publishing in top-tier venues every year."

Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU).