Matthias Jarke

From IRF 2007

Matthias Jarke is professor for Information Systems and Databases at RWTH Aachen University and Director of the Fraunhofer FIT Institute for Applied IT. After obtaining degrees in business administration and computer science from the University of Hamburg, he served on the faculties of New York University’s Stern School of Business and of the University of Passau in Germany prior to joining RWTH Aachen University in 1991.

In 2003, Professor Jarke founded the endowment-supported Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT), aimed at the internationalization of high-quality graduate programs in applied IT. His research area is information systems support for cooperative activities in business, engineering, and culture. Major results include the widely used logicbased metadata management system ConceptBase, frameworks for requirements engineering research, and contributions to BSCW, imergo, and InfoZoom – all Fraunhofer FIT research results that have been successfully commercialized through spin-off companies and other means.

Professor Jarke is currently involved in two DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centers and has served as coordinator of several European projects in the field of information systems engineering. For over ten years, he served as chief editor of the oldest European database journal, Information Systems, and was program chair of major international conferences including VLDB, EDBT, CAiSE, SSDBM, and others.

Since 2004, Professor Jarke has served as President of the German Informatics Society (GI) and he was scientific coordinator of “Informatics Year – Science Year 2006” for the German Federal Government.