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Personal information
- Born 1950
in
Santa
Cruz do Sul, Brazil
- A database containing information about my family may
be found at the following
site
Academic degrees
- Electrical
Engineer (Electronics) at the Escola de
Engenharia,
Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS),
Porto
Alegre, Brazil, 1973
- MSc in Computer Science at the UFRGS,
Porto
Alegre, Brazil, 1976
- Dr. in Informatics at the University of
Bonn, Bonn, Germany,
1986
Positions held
- Since 2016, retired
- Since 1978 at the
Applied Informatics Department (Departamento de
Informática Aplicada),
Informatics
Institute (Instituto de Informática),
UFRGS,
Porto
Alegre, Brazil; since 1997 as "Professor
Titular" (Full Professor)
- 1977 "Gastforscher" (visiting researcher) at the
Gesellschaft
fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD),
Sankt
Augustin, Germany
- 1973-76
"Programador e analista de sistemas" (programmer and
systems analyst) at the
Centro
de Processamento de Dados,
UFRGS,
Porto
Alegre, Brazil: development of database
applications
Research area
- Databases: database
integration, semi-structured data
- Modeling of database applications: database
modeling, OO modeling, dynamic modeling of information
systems,
Colored
Petri Nets, transaction modeling and
design
Teaching experience
- Since 1976
teaching computer science at all levels. Areas included
are databases and dynamic modeling of information
systems. Invited courses at several universities and
conferences in Latin-America. Also courses on database
design and OO design at Brazilian organizations
(private and government)
Administrative experience
- Head
of the Graduate
Program in Computer Science of the
Instituto de Informática, UFRGS (2001-2004)
- Head of the Applied
Informatics Department (Departamento de
Informática Aplicada), Informatics
Institute (Instituto de Informática),
UFRGS,
Porto
Alegre, Brazil, 1991-94.
- Conferences: several times as member of the program committee; PC-Chair at SEMISH, CLEI and SBBD;
twice as OC-chairman
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