Christoph Koch#
Membership Number: | 4974 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | INFORMATICS |
Elected: | 2019 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Homepage(s): | https://people.epfl.ch/christoph.koch |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - today Full Professor of Computer Science, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2007 - 2010 Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University, USA
- 2005 - 2007 Associate Professor of Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany
- 2004 - 2005 Privatdozent, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 2003 - 2004 Unversitaetsassistent, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 2002 - 2003 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2001 - 2002 Postdoctoral Researcher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- 1998 - 2001 PhD student, CERN, Switzerland
Fields of Scholarship
- Logic
- Database theory
- Database systems
- Programming languages
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Best Paper Award at ACM PODS
- 2005 Best EATCS Paper Award 2005 (Best Paper Award at ICALP 2005)
- 2009 Google Research Award
- 2011 Best Paper Award at ACM SIGMOD
- 2011 ERC Consolidator Grant
- CIDR 2013 Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award
- 2014 Best paper award at VLDB
- Paper selected as one of the best in databases in 2016, and published as research highlight in Communications of the ACM
- Best paper award at GPCE 2017, Vancouver, Canada