Born: March 16, 1964 in Koblenz, Germany

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Work Experience:
1989 – 1990	Software Engineer, Honeywell (Lippke), Neuwied
1990 – 1991	Teacher of Computer Science, bfw School for professional education, Koblenz
1992 – 1996	Research Fellow to Prof. König, Chair of Information Management, Institute for Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Frankfurt University
1997 – 2001	Assistant Professor, Institute for IS Research, Computer Science Faculty, The University of Koblenz-Landau
2001 – 2003	Acting Full Professor of Information Systems, Institute of Business Administration, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Technical University Darmstadt
2003 – 2008	Associate Professor, School of Business and Informatics, University College of Borås
2009 –	Full Professor, School of Business and Informatics, University College of Borås
2008 –	Associate Professor, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

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Projects:
1992 – 1994	Distributed Reasoning Support System (DRSS)
1995 – 1996	Flexible Organization of Distributed Agents (FLODAG)
1999 – 2001	Electronic Commerce Modeling (ECOMOD): Fund raiser & project leader
2004	Open Application Sharing (with Microsoft) Improving Interorganizational Business Processes (with Total Logistik & Hemtex)
2005	Standard Processes to Satisfy Unique Customer Requirements (with Total Logistik)
2005 –	Co-design platforms (with the Centre of Collaborative Innovation & Microsoft)
2007	Business Process Analysis and Requirements Elicitation for a Warehouse Management System of the Customer Distribution Centre (with Ericsson)
2008-2009	Business Process Intelligence (funded by Flanders DC) at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

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Management role:

·         Vice-chair of the AIS Special Interest Group on Modelling and Simulation

Editorships:

·         Informing Science Journal (Associate Editor)

·         Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (Member of the Editorial Board)

·         International Journal of Organizational Design and Engineering (Member of the Editorial Board)

·         International Journal of eCollaboration (Special Issue Editor)

·         Enterprise Modeling and Computing with UML, Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2006 (Book Editor)

·         Handbook of Ontologies for Business Interaction, Hershey, PA: Idea Group, 2008 (Book Editor)

·         European Conference of Information Systems (Associate Editor)

Review assignments (journals):

·         Information Systems Journal

·         Information & Software Technology

·         Applied Ontology

·         Journal of Electronic Commerce Research

·         Information Research

·         Information Resources Management Journal

·         Enterprise Information Management Journal

·         International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management

·         Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology

·         Wirtschaftsinformatik

·         Journal of Logic and Computation

PC memberships / review assignments (conferences):

·         Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): 2000, 2008, 2009

·         Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS): 2007, 2008

·         Enterprise Modeling and Information Systems Architectures: 2007

·         Ereignisgesteuerte Prozessketten (EPK): 2003, 2007

·         European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS): 1999, 2000, 2007, 2009

·         Exploring Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD): 2007

·         Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS): 2008, 2009

·         Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS): 2008, 2009

·         International Conference of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA): 2001, 2003, 2003, 2005, 2006 & 2007

·         International Conference of the International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA): Winter 2004, Summer 2005, Winter 2005, Summer 2006 & Winter 2006

·         Informing Science Conference: 2001

·         Informing Science and Information Technology Education Joint Conference (InSITE): 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007

·         Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS): 2007

·         Wirtschaftsinformatik: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2009

·         Modellierung betrieblicher Informationssysteme (MobIS): 2008

·         Vocabularies, Ontologies, and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

·         Data Warehousing (DW): 2006

·         World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI): 2008

·         Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MICIS): 2007

·         SBNi (Discovery event of the Smart Business Networks initiative): 2006

Program Co-Chair:

·         Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS): 2008

Organization Co-Chair:

·         Enterprise Modeling and Information Systems Architectures: 2007

Track Chair:

·         IRMA 2007

·         Informing Science 2001 and 2002

Review assignments (books):

·         Whitworth, B.; de Moor, A.: Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009

·         Putnik, Goran D.; Cunha, Maria Manuela: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008

·         Syed, M. R.; Syed, S. N.: Handbook of Research on Modern Systems Analysis and Design Technologies and Applications, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008

·        Cunha, Maria Manuela; Cortes, Bruno; Putnik, Goran D.: Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008

·         Fettke, Peter; Loos, Peter: Reference Modeling for Business Systems Analysis. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2006

·         Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2005

·         Favre, Liliana: UML and the Unified Process. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2003

Visiting scholarship: Stanford University, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, 1996