Michael Ley is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Trier (Germany). His primary interests are database systems, information retrieval, digital libraries and electronic publishing.
Ley is the principal developer of the DBLP (formerly Digital Bibliography & Library Project and originally DataBase systems and Logic Programming), a widely used computer science bibliography website hosted at the University of Trier.
For his development of DBLP, Ley received the SIGMOD Contribution award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2003 and the VLDB Endowment Special Recognition Award in 1997.