Professor Dr. Hannes Mühleisen is a creator of the DuckDB database management system and the co-founder and CEO of DuckDB Labs, a consulting company providing services for DuckDB. He is also a senior researcher of the Database Architectures group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and a Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University. Hannes’ main interest is analytical data management systems.