Christian S. Jensen - Biography#

Christian S. Jensen is an Obel Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. He was a Professor at Aarhus University for a 3-year period from 2010 to 2013. Prior to that, he was a Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. During the 1990s, he spent four sabbaticals at University of Arizona, and he recently spent a one-year sabbatical at Google Inc., Mountain View. He received the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in 1991 after 2 1/2 years of study at University of Maryland, and he received the Dr.Techn. degree from Aalborg University in 2000.

His research concerns data management and data-intensive systems, primarily temporal and spatio-temporal data management.

He is an ACM and IEEE fellow, a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, and the EDBT Endowment, as well as a trustee emeritus of the VLDB Endowment. He received the Ib Henriksen Research Award in 2001, mainly for his research in temporal data management, Telenor's Nordic Research Award in 2002, for his research in mobile services, and the Villum Kann Rasmussen Award for Technical and Scientific Research in 2011, for his research contributions overall.

He is vice-chair of ACM SIGMOD, an editor-in-chief of The VLDB Journal, and an area editor (temporal databases) for the Encyclopedia of Database Systems. He has served on the editorial boards of ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, and the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. He was PC chair or co-chair for SSTD 2001, EDBT 2002, VLDB 2005, MobiDE 2006, MDM 2007, DMSN 2008, TIME 2008, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011, AP Web 2012, IEEE ICDE 2013, and DASFAA 2014. He has given 21 keynote lectures, including the opening keynote at VLDB 2012.