My main research interests are in the area of spatiotemporal data management and, according to Google Scholar, my publications have been cited 4,850+ times, yielding an H-index of 33 (DBLP kindly maintains (most of) my publications organized by year).

I am also serving as the General co-Chair for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024, and recently served as its Program Committee’s co-Chair in 2022 and 2023. I have also served often as a program committee member for the main database conferences, and as (co-)chair of several workshops and symposia, most recently SSTD 2023. I have served as ACM SIGMOD‘s Information Director (2002-2005), ACM SIGMOD Record‘s Editor-In-Chief (2005-2007) and VLDB Journal‘s Editorial Board member (2011-2017), and I am currently a member of GeoInformatica’s Editorial Board, SSTD Endowment’s Board of Directors (Chair).