Johann Gamper is full professor at the Faculty of Engineering. Since 2018 he serves as Vice-Rector for Research at unibz.  Johann Gamper received a MSc degree in Computer Science from the TU Vienna (1989) and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the RWTH Aachen (1996).  His research concentrates on database technologies with a focus on processing, querying and analyzing temporal data, including time series.  He is author of 140+ publications in international journals and conference proceedings, many of which are in the most prestiguous outlets of database systems (TODS, VLDBJ, TKDE, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE). He regularly serves as reviewer for technical journals, PC member and organizer of conferences.