The BioInformer nr. 3, 1998 -- Beate Marx




	A publication of EMBL - Outstation Hinxton, The European Bioinformatics Institute

Beate Marx

(Applications Programmer)

E-mail: marx@ebi.ac.uk

Hi, I'm Beate Marx and I've joined the database applications group in November.

Before I started working for the EBI I had a postdoc position at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany. For the last one and a half years my main project there was the design and the implementation of the German National Polar Data Directory System which is a web based scientific information system for polar data. It's purpose is to improve the exchange and make freely available scientific observations and results from the polar regions. It's core is a relational database (Sybase) and it is implemented in VisualWave, a Smalltalk derivate.

Apart from that I was responsible for the administration of the AWI's Sybase databases and I assisted other AWI scientists with database modeling and the implementation of web based database application programs. Have a look there at http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Research/index.html.

I studied mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Darmstadt with main emphasis on database systems on the computer science side and on algebra, lattice theory and all sorts of discrete mathematics on the mathematics side. My master thesis was on a lattice theoretic approach to database query languages for complex objects.

I continued my studies at the University of Mannheim as assistant of Professor Georg Lausen who had a chair for database systems. During my time there our group implemented the prototype of a logic based object oriented database query language.
My Ph.D. thesis was on evaluation strategies of logic based database languages with respect to an object oriented semantics. I'm pretty firm in relational database theory and, although I'm away from university for about 4 years now, I think I still have an overview over what's going on on the object-oriented databases field.

At the EBI I will be responsible for Oracle and Sybase database system administration, data modeling and performance tuning and database programming.
My current projects are the implementation of an Oracle replication server, the installation of a new version of the Oracle web server, the installation and testing of Oracle8 and (later this year) the upgrading of the EMBL production database.

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