About

My name is Michael zur Muehlen and I am an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, USA. I direct a research center on Business Process Innovation and follow the standards scene in BPM actively. My official homepage can be found here, and you can read about my research activities here.

In case you need it, here is my official biography blurb:

Michael zur Muehlen is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Howe School of Technology Management, Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, NJ. He directs Stevens’ BPM research center (Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation) and is responsible for the Howe School’s graduate program in Business Process Management and Service Innovation. Prior to his appointment at Stevens, Michael was a senior lecturer at the Department of Information Systems, University of Muenster, Germany, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has over 14 years of experience in the field of process automation and workflow management, and has led numerous process improvement and design projects in the utility, financial services, industrial, and telecommunications sector both in Germany and the US.

An active contributor to standards in the BPM area, Michael is a fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition and chairs the WfMC working group “Management and Audit”. His research has been funded by SAP Research, the US Army, the Australian Research Council, and private sponsors. Michael has presented his research in 20 countries. He is the author of a book on workflow-based process controlling, numerous journal articles, conference papers and book chapters and working papers on workflow and process management.

Michael’s research interests center around the organizational aspect of BPM technology, risk-aware process management, and process support for managerial decision making. He has also published widely on BPM standards and standard making in general.

He is a founding director of the AIS special interest group on process automation and management (SIGPAM). Michael holds a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) and an MS in Information Systems from the University of Muenster, Germany.