Werdegang:
2018 - today Professor RWTH Aachen University and chair of Process and Data Science (PADS)
2021 - today Chief Scientist Celonis
2018 - today Head of the Process Mining group of Fraunhofer FIT
2015 - 2023 Member of the Board of Governors Tilburg University
2000 - 2018 Full Professor / Distinguished University Professor (TU/e)
2013 - 2018 Scientific Director of the Data Science Center Eindhoven (DSC/e)
1992 - 1999 Assistant/Associate Professor Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
1988 - 1992 Research assistant TNO and TU/e (leading to a PhD degree in Mathematics)
1984 - 1988 Bachelor and Master Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
process mining, Petri nets, business process management, workflow automation, simulation, process modeling, and model-based analysis.

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:
Vice editor-in-chief of Business & Information Systems Engineering
Board of Directors, RWTH Center for Artificial Intelligence
Principal Investigator and Deputy CEO of the Cluster of Excellence Internet of Production
IEEE Task Force on Process Mining
Steering committee of the Int. Conf. Series on Application and Theory of Petri nets
Steering committee of the Int. Conf. Series on Business Process Management

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:
8th highest-ranked computer scientist in the world (Research.com 2025 ranking)
IEEE Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ACM Fellow Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
IFIP Fellow International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
Elected member of the NRW Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor Award
Elected member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
Elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elected member of Academia Europaea
Honorary doctorate from Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
Honorary professorship from Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
W.M.P. van der Aalst. Process Mining: Data Science in Action. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2016.
W.M.P. van der Aalst. Decomposing Petri Nets for Process Mining: A Generic Approach. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 31(4):471-507, 2013.
W.M.P. van der Aalst and A. Berti. Discovering Object-Centric Petri Nets. Fundamenta Informaticae, 175(1-4):1-40, 2020.
W.M.P. van der Aalst. Business Process Management: A Comprehensive Survey. ISRN Software Engineering, pages 1-37, 2013.
W.M.P. van der Aalst, A. Adriansyah, and B. van Dongen. Replaying History on Process Models for Conformance Checking and Performance Analysis. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2(2):182-192, 2012.

Link zur Liste der gesamten Publikationen:
https://www.vdaalst.com/publications/publications.html