Prof. Dr. Wil van der Aalst, RWTH

Wil van der Aalst is an Alexander von Humboldt professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group. He is also the Chief Scientist at Celonis, part-time affiliated with the Fraunhofer FIT. His research interests include process mining, data science, process intelligence, business process management, workflow automation, Petri nets, process modeling, and simulation. Wil van der Aalst has published over 1100 articles and books. According to Research.com, he is the second-highest-ranked computer scientist in Germany and ranked 9th worldwide. According to Google Scholar, he has an H-index of 187 and more than 165.000 citations. Van der Aalst is an IFIP Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Fellow, and he received honorary degrees from the Moscow Higher School of Economics (Prof. h.c.), Tsinghua University, and Hasselt University (Dr. h.c.). He is also an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, the Academy of Europe, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and the German Academy of Science and Engineering.