Jan is a Distinguished Professor of Process Science at Maynooth University in Ireland. He is the Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) and holds the Chair of Information Systems & Business Process Management at the University of Münster in Germany.

Jan’s research has been pioneering in many areas, especially in the fields of business process management, design science research, digital nudging and green information systems. He is considered one of the co-founders of ‘process science’, an interdisciplinary field that analyses socio-technical change from different disciplinary perspectives. In particular, digital trace data is analyzed to capture and explain change, and to intervene in change to advance businesses and sustainable societies.

Professor vom Brocke’s work has been recognised with numerous international awards. He has been named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), a Schoeller Senior Fellow of Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) in Germany, a Fellow of the ESCP Centre for Design Science in Entrepreneurship, and a Digital Leader in his home country Liechtenstein. International rankings consistently place Jan among the top 50 in the world and the top 10 in Europe. In the current Stanford List of World`s Top 2% Scientists, Jan is ranked in the top 0.5% (in the career-accompanying database) and the top 0.1% (in last year’s data set) across all scientific fields.

For more information on Jan’s world-leading career and work, visit his website.