Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske

Phone: +49(0)331-5509-191

Fax: +49(0)331-5509-189

Room: C-2.07

Email: mathias.weske@hpi.de

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Bio Sketch

Professor Dr. Mathias Weske is a Fellow of the German Computer Science Society and chair of the business process technology research group at Hasso Plattner Institute at the Digital Engineering Faculty, University of Potsdam, Germany. We aim at addressing real-world problems in business process management with formal approaches and engineering useful prototypes. The BPT research group has a track record in engineering prototypes with a significant impact on research and practice, including projects like Oryx and jBPT. Dr. Weske co-founded Signavio and was business angel at Synfioo. He authored the first textbook on business process management in 2007, currently in its 4th edition, and he held the first massive open online course on the topic in 2013. With Matthias Kunze, he published a textbook on behavioural models. Dr. Weske is a founding member of the steering committee of the BPM conference series and was its chair from September 2017 through September 2022. Since 2024, Dr. Weske is an Adjunct Faculty member in the Windreich Department of AI and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

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Activities at Digital Engineering Fakultät and HPI

• Representative of HPI at Informatics Europe, https://www.informatics-europe.org, since 2024
• Ambassador of the German Computer Science Socity at HPI (GI-Botschafter), since 2021
• Head of faculty council (Fakultätsrat) Digital Engineering Fakultät, since 2021
• Member of faculty council (Fakultätsrat) Digital Engineering Fakultät, since 2017
• Deputy representative of master program IT-Systems Engineering (Stellv. Studiengangsbeauftragter, since 2022)
• Representative of master program IT-Systems Engineering (Studiengangsbeauftragter, 2001-2021)
• Member of exam commission (Prüfungsausschuss) Digital Engineering Fakultät, 2001-2022
• Member of study commission (Studienausschuss) Digital Engineering Fakultät, 2001-2022

Scientific Service

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Process Science journal, since 2023
• Fellow of the German Society for Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik), since 2021
• Founding member of the Steering Committee of the Conference Series International Conference on Business Process Management, 2004-2024
• Maintainer of the BPM conferences web site http://bpm-conference.org
• Editor of Information Systems: An International Journal, 2005-2015
• Chairperson of the GI Special Interest Group EMISA, 2006-2012
• Member of the Editorial Board of Springer’s Distributed and Parallel Databases journal, 2014-2020
• Associate Editor of the Springer journal Computing, 2017-2022
• Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the BPM conference series, 2017-2022
• Member of the Advisory Board of the BPM Steering Committee, since 2024

Reviews for Scientific Journals

ACM Computing Surveys; ACM Transactions on the Web; IEEE Internet Computing; IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Services Computing; Information Systems, Elsevier; Information and Software Technology, Elsevier; Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier; Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer; Informatik Forschung und Entwicklung, Springer-Verlag; International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management; VLDB Journal; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Computers in Biology and Medicine

Dissemination and Transfer

• Tech Advisor to mamahealth.io, a healthcare startup for patient journeys, co-founded by BPT graduate Dr. Adriatik Nikaj
• BPT graduates Dr. Andreas Meyer, and Marian Pufahl co-founded Synfioo, a software company offering real-time transportation monitoring and prediction services; project44 acquired Synfioo in 2022
• BPT graduates Dr. Thomas Baier and Dr. Rami Eid-Sabbagh in 2015 co-founded Lana Labs, a software company offering process mining, conformance checking and optimization services; Appian acquired Lana Labs in 2021
• Co-Founded in 2009 Signavio; SAP acquired Signavio in 2021
• 2008-2018 member of the Evaluation Commmitee of Profit, an investment program to foster innovation, run by Investitionsbank Berlin

Master Thesis Supervisions at University of Potsdam

1. Christian Günther (2004)
2. Maximilian Spiegel (2004)
3. Hagen Rother (geb. Overdick) (2005)
4. Anne Rozinat (2005)
5. Harald Schubert (2005)
6. Martin Klewitz (2006)
7. Lars Trieloff (2006)
8. Matthias Wiemann (2006)
9. Sebastian Stock (2006)
10. Gero Decker (2006)
11. Kay Hammerl (2006)
12. Jan Schaffner (2006)
13. Anja Bog (2006)
14. Dennis Klemann (2006)
15. Artem Polyvyanyy (2007)
16. Dominik Tornow (2007)
17. Sergey Smirnov (2007)
18. Silvan Golega (2007)
19. René Freude (2008)
20. Torben Schreiter (2008)
21. Alexander Lübbe (geb. Großkopf) (2008)
22. Alexander Küchler (2008)
23. Matthias Weidlich (2008)
24. Olaf Märker (2008)
25. Johannes Nicolai (2009)
26. Steffen Ryll (2009)
27. Matthias Kunze (2009)
28. Falko Menge (2009)
29. Bernd Schäufele (2009)
30. Andreas Meyer (2009)
31. Nicolas Peters (2010)
32. Willi Tscheschner (2010)
33. Maria Rastrepkina (2010)
34. Ole Eckermann (2011)
35. Alexander Koglin (2011)
36. Stefan Krumnow (2012)
37. Felix Elliger (2012)
38. Sven Wagner-Boysen (2013)
39. Philipp Maschke (2013)
40. Robert Gurol (2013)
41. Christian Wiggert (2013)
42. Egidijus Gircys (2013)
43. Markus Güntert (2013)
44. Christian Reß (2013)
45. Jan-Felix Schwarz (2013)
46. Robert Böhme (2014)
47. Tobias Metzke (2014)
48. Robert Breske (2014)
49. Kimon Batoulis (2014)
50. Thomas Stoff (2015)
51. Oliver Xylander (2015)
52. Thomas Zwerg (2015)
53. Kerstin Günther (2015)
54. Heiko Beck (2015)
55. Tim Sporleder (2016)
56. Tsun Wong (2017)
57. Lucie Omar (2017)
58. Susanne Bülow (2017)
59. Marius Eichenberg (2017)
60. Dennis Wolf (2018)
61. Stephan Haarmann (2018)
62. Jaspar Philipp Mang (2018)
63. Jan Ladleif (2019)
64. Felix Wolff (2019)
65. Adrian Holfter (2019)
66. Jonas Beyer (2020)
67. Peter Schwarz (2020)
68. Christian Friedow (2020)
69. Maximilian Völker (2020)
70. Sven Ladusch (2021)
71. Tom Lichtenstein (2021)
72. Tobias Wuttke (2021)
73. Demi Brabender (2022)
74. Christian Warmuth (2022)
75. Carolin Goerke (2022)
76. Anjo Seidel (2022)
77. Finn Klessascheck (2022)
78. Simon Siegert (2022)
79. Maximilian König (2022)
80. Hendrik Patzlaff (2023)
81. Daniel Woelki (2024)
82. Gritta Weisheit (2024)
83. Sandro Speh (2024)

PhD Supervisions at University of Potsdam

1. Dr. Hilmar Schuschel (2006)
2. Dr. Frank Puhlmann (2007)
3. Dr. Jens Hündling (2008)
4. Dr. Arnd Schnieders (2008)
5. Dr. Gero Decker (2009)
6. Dr. Ahmed Awad (2010)
7. Dr. Matthias Weidlich (2011)
8. Dr. Alexander Lübbe (2012)
9. Dr. Artem Polyvyanyy (2012)
10. Dr. Sergey Smirnov (2012)
11. Dr. Matthias Kunze (2013)
12. Dr. Andreas Rogge-Solti (2014)
13. Dr. Rami Eid-Sabbagh (2015)
14. Dr. Thomas Baier (2015)
15. Dr. Andreas Meyer (2015)
16. Dr. Luise Pufahl (2018)
17. Dr. Ekaterina Bazhenova (2018)
18. Dr. Nico Herzberg (2018)
19. Dr. Kimon Batoulis (2019)
20. Dr. Adriatik Nikaj (2019)
21. Dr. Sankalita Mandal (2019)
22. Dr. Jan Ladleif (2021)
23. Dr. Stephan Haarmann (2022)
24. Dr. Dorina Bano (2023)
25. Dr. Jonas Cremerius (2024)

PhD and Habilitation Evaluations

1. Pierluigi Plebani, PhD (2005), Politecnico di Milano
2. Nick Russell, PhD (2007), Queensland University of Technology
3. Dr. Helge Hofmeister (2009), University of Bamberg
4. Dr. rer. nat. habil Stephanie Rinderle-Ma (2009), University of Ulm
5. Dr. rer. nat. habil Barbara Weber (2009), University of Innsbruck
6. Dr. Christian Günther (2009), Technical University Eindhoven
7. Marcello la Rosa, PhD (2009), Queensland University of Technology
8. Dr. Niels Lohmann (2010), Technical University Eindhoven and University of Rostock
9. Dr. Anne Rozinat (2010), Technical University Eindhoven
10. Dr. Chen Li (2010), University of Twente
11. Dr.-Ing. Nils Barnickel (2011), Technical University Berlin
12. Dr. rer. pol. Volker Stiehl (2011), Technical University Darmstadt
13. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Ringelstein (2011), University of Koblenz-Landau
14. Reina Uba, PhD (2011), University of Tartu, Estonia
15. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Müller (2012), University of Potsdam
16. Dr. Zhiqiang Yan (2012), Technical University Eindhoven
17. Dr. Cristina Cabanillas (2012), University of Sevilla
18. Dr. Nick van Beest (2013), University of Groningen
19. Dr. rer. nat. Thao Ly (2013), University of Ulm
20. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Göb (2013), Technical University of Munich
21. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Stöhr (2014), Technical University of Berlin
22. Dr. Martijn Zoet (2014), University of Utrecht
23. Dr. Luke Herbert (2014), Technical University of Denmark
24. Dr.-Ing. Dr. med Johannes Starlinger (2015), HU Berlin
25. Dr. rer. nat Yossef Arbach (2015), TU Berlin
26. Dr. Fabian Pittke (2015), WU Vienna
27. Christopher Klinkmüller, PhD (2017), Macquarie University
28. Mike Marin, PhD (2017), University of South Africa
29. Dr.-Ing. Ronny Seiger (2018), TU Dresden
30. Dr. rer. nat. Marvin Triebel (2018), HU Berlin
31. Dr. Francesca Zerbato (2019) University of Verona, Italy (Co-Advisor)
32. Dr. Chiara Muzi (2019) University of Camerino, Italy (Co-Advisor)
33. Dr. Ana Ivanchikj (2021), Università della Svizzera italiana
34. Dr. Sebastian Wagner (2022), Universität Stuttgart
35. Dr.-Ing. Philippe Krajsic (2022), Universität Leipzig
36. Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Steinau (2023), Universität Ulm

Membership in Program Committees

• Advanced Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 (Program Board), 2025 (Program Board)
• Business Information Systems (BIS), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
• Business Process Management (BPM), 2003 (PC Chair), 2004 (PC Chair), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (PC Chair, Consolidation Chair), 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 (PC Chair), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 (Senior PC), 2024 (Senior PC)
• The Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC) 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• EMISA, 2002 (PC Chair), 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (PC Chair), 2007 (PC Chair), 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (PC Chair), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• Modellierung 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 (PC Chair, General Chair)