Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT
Dr. Gyunam Park has been appointed Assistant Professor of Process Analytics at Eindhoven University of Technology. At Fraunhofer FIT, he continues to lead the Process Mining Group within the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Department.
Appointments, Awards and Honors
Dr. Julia Lanzl has accepted a professorship in Digital Innovation and Transformation at the University of Hamburg and has left the institute.
Dr. Marc Körner has been appointed Professor of Information Systems Engineering at the University of Luxembourg and is no longer affiliated with Fraunhofer FIT.
Prof. Dr. Antonello Monti was awarded the “Working Group Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Report” which honors the best working groups of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) for outstanding published work.
Prof. Dr. Wil van der Aalst is once again among the top ten in the Research.com ranking “Best Computer Science Scientists 2025/2026” (8th worldwide, 1st in Germany). The ranking lists the 2,000 best computer scientists worldwide.
Prof. Dr. Sandra Geisler has joined the RWTH Center for Computational Life Sciences (CCLS) as a new member. The CCLS is based on a dynamic network connecting researchers from RWTH Aachen University and other partners. The network brings together expertise from medicine, biology, biotechnology, mathematics, and computer science, thereby facilitating collaborations that advance interdisciplinary research.
The dissertation “Digital Social Innovation: Leveraging Digital Technologies for a Sustainable Future” by Dr. Anna Krombacher was awarded the 2025 Dissertation Prize in Economics from the University of Bayreuth and the 2025 City of Bayreuth Prize.
Prof. Dr. Nils Urbach was honored with the 2025 Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award for his work as managing editor of the journal Electronic Markets.
Prof. Dr. Nils Urbach was nominated for the Best Paper Award at the 46th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2025) for his publication “One Solution to fix them all: Does Decentralization fix the Problems of Social Media?”
Philipp Dilger, Dominik Fetzer, and Prof. Dr. Julia Lanzl won the Best Design Science Paper Award at the 46th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2025) for their paper “Designing Inclusive Generative Artificial Intelligence-Based Conversational Agents with & for Intellectually Disabled Individuals”.
Dr. Carlotta Crome and Prof. Dr. Anna Maria Oberländer were honored with the Best Paper Award from the journal Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) for their paper “The Twin Transformation Butterfly: Capabilities for an Integrated Digital and Sustainability Transformation”.
Dr. Claudius Jonas, Fraunhofer FIT alumnus Dr. Jannik Lockl, Prof. Dr. Maximilian Röglinger and Dr. Robin Weidlich were awarded the Best Paper Award from the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) for their paper “Designing a wearable IoT-based bladder level monitoring system for neurogenic bladder patients”.
Paula Heeß, Dr. Jakob Rockstuhl, Prof. Dr. Marc-Fabian Körner, and Prof. Dr. Jens Strüker were honored with the Most Cited Paper Award from the journal Electronic Markets for their paper “Enhancing trust in global supply chains: Conceptualizing Digital Product Passports for a low-carbon hydrogen market”.
Matthias Babel, Marvin Ehaus, Paula Heeß, Prof. Dr. Marc-Fabian Körner, Leo Schick, and Prof. Dr. Jens Strüker won the Best Paper Award at the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2025) for their paper “Introducing the Trust Diamond for Energy Flexibility Provision: On the Tension of Data Verifiability and Privacy”.
Award for climate-friendly neighborhoods: For their joint project “Future-iQ: Düsseldorfer Straße Neighborhood in Cologne”, EnergieServicePlus GmbH, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, and Fraunhofer FIT were honored with the ODH – Open District Hub e.V. Neighborhood Award 2025 in the Impact category. The project demonstrated how a building constructed in 2004 could be brought to a new level of energy efficiency with savings of some 35 tons of CO₂ per year and 65 percent of its heating demand covered by renewable energy.