Stefan Deßloch is a professor at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he is heading the research group Heterogeneous Information Systems. Until 2002, he was a database architect at the IBM Database Technology Institute in San Jose, California, where he conducted projects in the areas of information integration architecture and programming models, database & application server integration, and object-relational database extensions, whose outcome helped to shape database-related standards, directly contributed to IBM's product directions and implementations, and resulted in a number of patents. From 2001 to 2002, as a manager, he was responsible for IBM's database-related standardization efforts in the areas of SQL, XML, and Java.

Major areas of interest include

• information integration,
• (DB-) middleware technologies,
• databases and the web,
• XML and databases,
• database and application server integration,
• extensible and object-relational DBMS.

Ongoing research projects are described in our projects section.

• Editorial board member of the "Int. Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR)", Idea Group Publishing/Information Science Publishing.
• Electronic proceedings chair and co-editor of the ACM SIGMOD 2004 conference.
• Held tutorials on database standards at BTW Datenbank Tutorientage in 2005, 2001, 1999.
• Program committee and organisation committee member of numerous national and international conferences.
• Head of the PhD Study Program, Dept. of Computer Science.
• Member of ACM SIGMOD and the German Informatics Society (GI).

• A full list of publications of our research group can be found in our publications section.
• A list of publications is also available at the DBLP Bibliography Server.

A list of issued patents and published patent applications can be found at the US Patent and Trademark Office web site.