Volker Markl (born 1971) is a German computer scientist and database systems researcher.
In 1999, Markl received his PhD in computer science under the direction of Rudolf Bayer at the Technical University of Munich.
From 2001 to 2008, he was project leader at the IBM Almaden Research Center, Silicon Valley.
Since 2008, he has been full professor and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management Group at Technische Universität Berlin.
[6] Markl’s research interests lie at the intersection of distributed systems, scalable data processing, and machine learning.