RWTH Aachen University

With 260 institutes in nine faculties, RWTH Aachen University is one of Europe’s leading institutions for science and research. Currently around 30,000 students are enrolled in over 100 academic programmes. Over 5,000 of them are international students hailing from 130 different countries. The scientific education students receive at RWTH Aachen is firmly rooted in real-world applications.

The Chair for Computer Science 9 (Data Management and Data Exploration) works on technologies for databases and data mining with a focus on large data sets of complex objects including relational tuples, multimedia data and spatio-temporal objects which occur in many applications of natural sciences, engineering, communication and life sciences. The topics range from new models for data mining and similarity search to efficient query processing using multistep algorithms and indexing structures.