Thorsten Papenbrock
Professor at The Philipp University of Marburg
Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolThorsten Papenbrock is a professor and researcher with 11 years of experience specializing in data engineering and distributed computing, currently based at Philipps University of Marburg. He combines deep academic credentials (PhD, MSc, BSc from the Hasso Plattner Institute) with hands-on leadership of a distributed computing research group, focusing on data profiling, cleaning, integration, and system robustness. Prior roles at the Hasso Plattner Institute saw him lead research and teach distributed data management and analytics, bridging theory and production-aware solutions. His work emphasizes efficiency and elasticity in distributed systems, tackling practical data quality challenges that many academic projects leave abstract. Known for applying rigorous research methods to real-world engineering problems, he brings both classroom mentorship and lab-to-deployment sensibilities to university and collaborative research settings.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Hasso Plattner InstituteAbitur, Abitur at Kardinal-von-Galen-Gymnasium
Github Skills (20)
profiling10
data-profiling10
akka9
scala8
spark-ml8
react6
pyspark6
data-management6
frontend5
kafka5
spark5
apache-spark5
typescript4
dynamic-data4
discovery3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HPI-Information-Systems/metanome-algorithms
Oct 2014 - Dec 2021
Source code for several Metanome data profiling algorithms
Contributions:110 commits, 11 PRs, 19 pushes in 7 years 3 months
profilingdata-profiling
UMR-Big-Data-Analytics/ddm-data
Oct 2021 - Oct 2024
Akka example and homework code for the "Distributed Data Management" lecture.
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
data-managementscalaakkakafkacode-homework
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