Bernhard Karl Thalheim (born 10 March 1952 in Radebeul) is a German computer scientist and professor of information systems engineering at the University of Kiel in Kiel, Germany.

Born in Radebeul (near Dresden), Germany, Thalheim received his M.Sc.

Thalheim has received a number of awards for his achievements in information systems engineering.

He was honored in 2005 as the Kolmogorov Professor h.c. at Lomonosov Moscow State University,[1] on 22 October 2008, received the Peter P. Chen Award of Elsevier for Entity–relationship model research,[2] is the founder of the German Chapter of DAMA, international Vice-Chair of the steering committee of the FoIKS conferences, Member of steering committees of conferences, e.g. ER, ADBIS, ASM, NLDB Editor of Data and Knowledge Engineering and other journals, and member of the advisory board of Dataport.

His ideas about conceptual modeling foundations and theory have been applied in field as: Bernhard Thalheim published several books, papers and articles.