Henderik Proper

Tech. Uni. Vienna, Vienna, AT

Prof. Dr. Henderik A. Proper, Erik for friends, is Full Professor in Enterprise and Process Engineering in the Business Informatics Group at the TU Wien.  He is co-author of a wide range of conference publications, chapters in books, journal papers, and books. His h-index according to google scholar is presently 45.  During his career so-far, he supervised 15 PhD candidates as primary supervisor, and 4 PhD candidates as co-supervisor. Over the past ten years, he has regularly provided guest lectures within different MSc programmes offered by the University of Luxembourg (LU), the University of Lorraine (FR), the TU Wien (AT), the University of Namur (BE), Antwerp University (BE), and TIAS (NL).  Erik has a mixed background, covering a variety of roles in both academia and industry. His core research drive is the development of theories that work. In other words, Erik focuses on research that leads to results that have both theoretical rigour and practical relevance.  His general research interest concerns the foundations and applications of domain modelling; in particular in the context of enterprises. Over the past 20 years, he has applied this research drive and general research interest towards the further development of the field of enterprise engineering, and enterprise modelling in particular. His long experience in teaching and coaching a wide variety of people enables him to involve and engage others in this development.

Erik received his Master’s degree from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands in May 1990, and received his PhD (with distinction) from the same University in April 1994. For his Doctoral thesis he developed a theory for conceptual modelling of evolving application domains, yielding a formal specification of evolving information systems.  After receiving his PhD, Erik became a senior research fellow at the Computer Science Department of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. During that period, he also conducted research in the Asymetrix Research Lab at that University for Asymetrix Corp, Seattle, Washington. After several positions, in January 2023, Erik moved to the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) to take up a Full Professorship in Enterprise & Process Engineering within the Business Informatics Group.  As of January 2022, Erik is vice-chair of the IFIP 8.1 working group, while also being the representative for the Netherlands in IFIP’s TC8 technical committee. He is also the Vice-Chair of the EMISA working group of the German Computer Science Society, as well as a member of the management team of the Enterprise Engineering Network.