My major research addresses advanced issues in the engineering, implementation and practical use of adaptive process-aware information systems (PAIS). In particular, it targets at next generation process management technologies, which will enable a high degree of process flexibility for end users as well as full process lifecycle support in a variety of domains; i.e., the overall goal is to provide integrated and generic services for the modeling, configuration, implementation, enactment, (dynamic) change, mining, and evolution of business processes in PAIS. 

Currently, I am (co-)coordinator of the following research projects:

ATAPIS (Adaptive Time- and Process-aware Information Systems)
Corepro (Data-driven Process Structures)
C³Pro (Enabling Change and Compliance for Collaborative Processes)
ENPROSO (Enhanced Process Management through Service Orientation)
MARPLE (Managing Robust Mobile Processes in a Complex World)
MinAdept (Mining Process Variants & Process Changes)
niPRO (Personalized and Intelligent Process Portals)
PHILharmonic Flows (Linking Processes, Humans and Information)
PROCEED (PROactive Consistency for EE product Data management)
Proviado (Process Visualization in the Automotive Domain)
Provop (Process Variants by Options)
Qube (Quality Assessment and Management in Business Process Design, Implementation and Enactment)
Q-Advice (Quality ADVisory Infrastructure for Collaborative Engineering) 
SustainHub (Sustainability Data Exchange Hub)

Below you can find a list of completed research projects I was involved in:

ADEPT1 (Flexible Workflow Management) 
ADEPT2 (Next Generation Process Management Technology)
ADEPTdistribution (Scalability in WfMS and Distributed Workflow Control)
ADEPTevolution (Schema Evolution in Workflow Systems)
AristaFlow (Developing Processes in a "Plug & Play"-like Style)
CEOSIS (Controlled Evolution of Organizational Structures in Information Systems)
DYCHOR (Dynamic Choreographies)
EcoPost (Estimating Costs for Process-aware Information Systems)
MoDe4SLA (Monitoring Dependencies for SLAs) 
ProCycle (Life Cycle Support in Process-Aware Information Systems)
ProWAP (Process Modelling Based on Workflow Activity Patterns)

In these projects we conduct design research, but also apply empirical as well as experimental research. It is also our philosophy to develop advanced proof-of-concepts software prototypes and to evaluate them in real-world projects. In the context of the ADEPT project, for example, this led to a spin-off - called AristaFlow GmbH - which has tansferred the ADEPT research prototype into an industrial-strength BPM suite (AristaFlow-Forum).

The above listed research projects involve both national and international partners. While some of the projects focus on basic research, others apply developed concepts in advanced application domains like healthcare, automotive engineering or software engineering.