Jan Mendling Editor & Author

Marlon Dumas is a professor of Information Systems at University of Tartu, Estonia and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. He is co-editor of a textbook on Process-Aware Information Systems (Wiley, 2005) and has taught BPM both in academia and as a professional trainer for over a decade in a dozen countries. He is also an active BPM researcher with a focus on process modeling, analysis and monitoring. He is one of the main architects of two open-source BPM projects – Apromore and Nirdizati.
Marcello La Rosa is a professor of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to that, he held an appointment at QUT, Australia. Marcello leads the Apromore open-source project, for the development of an advanced process analytics platform, and contributes to the predictive process monitoring platform Nirdizati. His research interests focus on process mining, analysis and consolidation. Marcello has taught BPM to students and practitioners in Australia and overseas for over ten years. His MOOCs, co-developed with the other authors of this book, have been attended by over 25,000 students worldwide.
Jan Mendling is a full professor with the Institute for Information Business at the WU Vienna, Austria. Prior to that, he held appointments at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and at QUT, Australia. Currently, he is also a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana and the University of Liechtenstein. His main research interests are in business process management and process mining. Jan has taught BPM to students and practitioners at different institutions in Europe and Australia. He is co-founder of the Berliner BPM-Offensive, a practitioners’ forum for BPM, and a board member of the Austrian Process Management Society (Gesellschaft für Prozessmanagement).
Hajo A. Reijers is a full professor of Business Informatics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He also holds a position as part-time, full professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. Previously, he worked as a management consultant in the BPM field. Hajo has taught BPM to students at all academic levels and provides training to practitioners at the TIAS Business School. He is one of the founders of the Business Process Management Forum, a Dutch platform for the exchange of knowledge between industry and academia.