Eckhard Falkenberg

Eckhard D. Falkenberg (born 1942) is a German scientist and Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is known for his contributions in the fields of information modelling, especially object-role modeling, and the conceptual foundations of information systems.

In the early 1960s Falkenberg studied electrical and telecommunications engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where he received his engineering degree under Gert Hauske and . Later in 1975 he obtained his PhD in informatics at the University of Stuttgart under the supervision of Hans-Jochen Schneider and Walter Knödel.

In 1967 Falkenberg had started his career as a development engineer at Telefunken in Konstanz, Germany. In 1971 he became Research Assistant at the computer science department of the University of Stuttgart, where he conducted his PhD research. In those days he published his first articles on modelling of database systems. In 1976 he moved to the Siemens Research Laboratories in Munich, where he became a Research Manager. Here he started working on manipulation and specification languages for information systems, and on the design of architecture of information systems.

In 1982 on invitation by Sjir Nijssen he moved to the University of Queensland in Australia, where he was appointed Senior Lecturer at its computer science department. In 1986 back in Europe Falkenberg was appointed Professor of Information Systems at the computer science department of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Among his doctoral students were Sjaak Brinkkemper (1990), Arthur ter Hofstede (1993), Erik Proper (1994) and Patrick van Bommel (1995). Late 1990s Falkenberg retired and moved back to Germany

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