Short Biography

Since 1990 she is the Professor in Information Systems at the University of Queensland, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering in Brisbane, Australia. She is the head of Data and Knowledge Engineering Division and a Deputy Head of the ITEE School. She is one of creators of the Distributed Systems Technology Centre, DSTC Pty Ltd, and after over ten years of research collaboration, a Distinguished Research Fellow of the DSTC. Currently she is the convener Enterprise Information Infrastructure ARC Research Network http://www.eii.edu.au.

Since 1994 till 2000 she served as a VLDB Endowment trustee as a Far East representative. Prof Orlowska served on many international conferences as a PC Chair including the VLDB, ICDE and over 170 memberships of Program Committees. She is a member of the Editorial Board of eight international journals including Int Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering and Int Journal of Internet and Web Information Systems and others. Her involvement at Australian Research Council’s College of Experts contributed to maintenance of high standards in competitive research grants allocation.

Her research interests include database system, data mining, workflow technology, eBusiness collaboration, business process modelling and verification, high performance systems, transaction processing, distributed/integrated databases and information retrieval.

Her research contributions appear in over 280 published research papers in peer reviewed international journals and conferences. Twenty nine PhD students have successfully completed their research studies under her supervision.

In March 2003, Maria Orlowska was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.