• Research foci

    • Business Process Modeling
    • Special aspects of Cloud Computing
    • Internet and Web - technological and social impacts
    • Databases and Information Systems
    • Paradigms to handle "big data"

  • Education

    1990
    Habilitation and venia legendi in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
    1986
    Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at RWTH Aachen University
    1981
    University degree in Computer Science (diploma) at RWTH Aachen University
    1974- 1981
    Studies in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University

  • Positions

    2004- 12/2023
    Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) at University of Münster, Germany
    1999- 2007
    Visiting Professor at Karlstad University, Sweden, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, the Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
    1993- 02/2024
    Full Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany
    1991- 1993
    Professor of Computer Science at Gießen University
    1988- 1991
    Acting Professor at University of Kiel, University of Düsseldorf, and University of Koblenz-Landau
    1986- 1988
    Visiting Assistant Professor at Computer Science Department of University of California, San Diego, USA
    1981- 1991
    Research Assistant at the Chair for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (Prof. Dr. W. Oberschelp) at RWTH Aachen University

  • External functions

    since 2010
    Deputy chairman of the steering committee of the German information technology certification agency Cert-IT, Bonn
    2008- 2011
    Scientific advisor of Deutsche Informatik-Akademie (DIA, German Informatics Academy), the continuous-education subsidiary of the German Computer Science Society (GI)
    since 2004
    Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Information Systems"
    since 2004
    Member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)
    2004- 2005
    Vice-president and treasurer of the German Computer Science Society (GI)
    1985- 2021
    Member of the IEEE Computer Society, USA
    since 1981
    Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA
    since 1979
    Member of the German Computer Science Society (GI)

  • Appointments

    2000
    Position offer at the University of Halle-Wittenberg (declined)