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Matthes Elstermann serves as Acting Professor of Software Engineering since 1 November 2024.

After studying industrial engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), he spent two years as a research associate in the complexity management research group at the Institute for Applied Informatics (AIFB), where he was responsible for research and teaching, before moving to the Institute for Information Management in Engineering (IMI) in October 2021. Since March 2018, Matthes Elstermann has led the research unit “Process Modelling and Management in Engineering Applications”.

Research Area: in one word: subject-orientation – or, more specifically, subject-oriented process modelling in all its facets. Starting with the further development of the theoretical and philosophical foundations of this modelling paradigm, through the development of tools for modelling, simulation and application, to the practical use of subject orientation for the analysis, understanding, explanation and, if necessary, (digital) transformation of complex socio-technical IT systems in a wide variety of domains. In the past, these were, for example, general applications, but also detailed problems of AI systems, e.g. ‘concept drift’. However, analysing processes in the field of sustainability or life cycle assessment or digital twin IT systems were or are also possible areas of application.