Martin L. Kersten

Sir Martin Kersten
Born	Martin Leopold Kersten (1953-10-25)October 25, 1953 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died	July 6, 2022(2022-07-06) (aged 68)
Alma mater	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Known for	MonetDB
Awards	Order of the Netherlands Lion, HiPEAC Tech Transfer Award,[1] ACM Fellow, SIGMOD Systems Award, ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Website	www.cwi.nl/people/321

Martin L. Kersten (October 25, 1953 – July 6, 2022) was a computer scientist with research focus on database architectures, query optimization and their use in scientific databases. He was an architect of the MonetDB system, an open-source column store for data warehouses, online analytical processing (OLAP) and geographic information systems (GIS). He has been (co-) founder of several successful spin-offs of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).^[2]