Dr. Viktor Leis

Professor

Build a Statement of Purpose

Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Viktor Leis. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.

Biography

Prof. Viktor Leis specializes in developing methods for the efficient storage and processing of large amounts of data utilizing modern hardware. His research incorporates traditional database topics such as query processing, query optimization, concurrency control, and indexing. Specifically, his research focuses on optimizing software systems in the cloud, with particular emphasis on automatically minimizing operational costs. Prof. Leis completed his degree in Information Systems at the University of Regensburg, obtaining a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he subsequently earned his doctorate. He has served as a professor at universities in Jena and Erlangen and returned to TUM as a professor in 2022.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2022-01-01 — Present

Technical University of Munich • Munich, Germany

Awards

#

VLDB Test Time Award

2025-01-01
#

VLDB Early Career Research Contribution Award

2024-01-01
#

ERC Starting Grant

2021-01-01
#

IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

2019-01-01
#

Dissertation Prize ACM SIGMOD

2018-01-01