Gunter Saake was born in 1960 in Göttingen, Germany. He received the diploma and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Technical University of Braunschweig, F.R.G., in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1989 he was a visiting scientist at the IBM Heidelberg Scientific Center where he joined the Advanced Information Management project and worked on language features and algorithms for sorting and duplicate elimination in nested relational data base structures. Gunter Saake is currently Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In January 1993 he received the Habilitation degree (venia legendi) for computer science from this university.
Gunter Saake participated in a national project on object bases for experts and in the European BRA working group IS-CORE. His research interests include conceptual design of data base applications, query languages for complex data base structures and languages, semantics and methodology for object-oriented system specification and application development in distributed and heterogeneous environments. He is member of ACM, EATCS, GI and of the organization committees of GI FG 2.5.1 `Databases' and GI AK `Foundations of Information Systems'.
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