Oliver Günther

Oliver Günther (born 22 October 1961 in Stuttgart) is president of the University of Potsdam[1] and former president of the German Informatics Society (GI)[2]

Oliver Günther
Prof. Oliver Günther, (Ph.D.)president of the University of Potsdam.
Born22 October 1961 (1961-10-22) (age 58)
Stuttgart
NationalityGerman
OccupationPresident of the University of Potsdam
AwardsDoctor of Humane Letters honoris causa, American Jewish University, 2014
Member, Acatech, 2019
Academic background
EducationMS in Industrial Engineering
MS/PhD in Computer Science
Alma materKarlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisEfficient Structures for Geometric Data Management (1987)
Doctoral advisorEugene Wong
Academic work
DisciplineComputer Science
Doctoral studentsHans-Arno Jacobsen
Gerrit Tamm

Career

In 1979 and 1980, Günther was the winner of Germany's National Mathematics Competition. He holds a Diplom in Industrial Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, and M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. degrees (1987) in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Before becoming assistant professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara in 1988, Günther worked as a post-doc at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). From 1989 till 1993 he held a leading position at FAW Ulm (Forschungsinstitut für anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung).

From 1993 until 2011 Günther was Professor of Information Systems at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2006 until 2011 he also served as Dean of Humboldt's School of Business and Economics. He was elected president of the University of Potsdam effective 2012. In May 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from American Jewish University.

Professor Günther has conducted research projects in the areas of enterprise information systems, IT strategy, security and privacy, digital asset management, collaborative software, database management, as well as geographic and environmental information systems. He has published broadly on these subjects and has been associate editor of numerous academic journals. He has held visiting faculty positions at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and the Pôle universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci in Paris, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Cape Town.

Other activities

Günther has served as a consultant and board member to various government agencies and high-tech companies. He was chairman of the board of Poptel AG, Germany's first voice-over-IP company, and chief technology officer of Teamtoolz, Inc., a San Francisco-based cloud service provider for the marketing and advertising industry. Commissioned by the German Ministry of the Interior, he currently coordinates the foundation of a business process library for the German public administration.

Corporate boards
  • UP Transfer, member of the supervisory board[3]

Non-profit organizations

Selected works
  • O. Günther, S. Evdokimov, M. Fischmann: Provable Security for Outsourcing Database Operations. International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, 4(1), 2010.
  • O. Günther, B. Fabian: Security Challenges of the EPC Network. Communications of the ACM 52(7), 2009.
  • O. Günther, W. Kletti, U. Kubach: RFID in manufacturing. Springer, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-76453-3.
  • O. Günther, S. Spiekermann: RFID and the Perception of Control: The Consumer’s View. Communications of the ACM 48(9):73-76, 2005.
  • O. Günther, B. Berendt, S. Spiekermann: Privacy in E-Commerce: Stated Preferences vs. Actual Behavior. Communications of the ACM 48(4):101-106, 2005.
  • O. Günther, V. Gaede: Multidimensional Access Methods. ACM Computing Surveys 30(2), 1998.
  • O. Günther: Environmental information systems. Springer, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-540-60926-1.
  • O. Günther (Ed.): Umweltanwendungen geographischer Informationssysteme. Wichmann, Karlsruhe 1992. ISBN 3-87907-259-0.
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References
  1. Pressemitteilung der Universität Potsdam: Neuer Präsident an der Universität Potsdam Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine 28 September 2011, retrieved 29 September 2011.
  2. Gesellschaft für Informatik: Vorstand, retrieved 17 January 2012
  3. Member of the Supervisory Board UP Transfer.
  4. Board of Trustees Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF).
  5. Board of Trustees Einstein Forum.
  6. Board of Trustees FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management.
  7. Board of Trustees Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics (AIP).
  8. Board of Trustees Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History.
  9. Board of Trustees Urania Berlin.
  10. Board of Trustees Weizenbaum Institute.
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