Professional Activities

Steering Committee Membership


  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Business Process Management Conference Series (2003- August 2013).
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Chinese Business Process Management Conference Series (2011-2015).
  • Member of the Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Business Process Management Conference Series (2013-2015). In the first year I was Honorary Chair.

Program Committee Membership


  • Co-organiser and program committee member of the 5th International Workshop on Process Querying, Manipulation, and Intelligence 2020, Process Querying, Manipulation, and Intelligence 2020, Padua, Italy, 2020.
  • Program Committee Member of the 2nd International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2020, Padua, Italy, 2020.
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 18th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2020, Seville, Spain, 2020.
  • Co-organiser and program committee member of the 4th International Workshop on Process Querying, Process Querying 2019 Vienna, Austria, 2019.
  • Program Committee Member of the 1st International Conference on Process Mining ICPM 2019, Aachen, Germany, 2019.
  • Program Committee Member of the 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019, Vienna, Austria, 2019.
  • Co-organiser and program committee member of the 3rd International Workshop on Process Querying, Process Querying 2018 Sydney, Australia, 2018.
  • Program Committee Member of the 16th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2018, Sydney, Australia, 2018.
  • Co-organiser and program committee member of the 2nd International Workshop on Process Querying, Process Querying 2017 Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
  • Program Committee Member of the 15th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
  • Co-organiser and program committee member of the 1st International Workshop on Process Querying, Process Querying 2016 Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 2016.
  • Program Committee Member of the 14th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2016.
  • Program Committee Member of the 1st International Workshop on Process Engineering (IWPE), Innsbruck, Austria, 31 August 2015.
  • Program Committee Member of the 13th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2015, Innsbruck, Austria, 2015.
  • Program Committee Member of the 3rd Asia Pacific conference on Business Process Management, AP-BPM 2015, Busan, Korea, 24 June 2015. I gave the keynote speech at this conference.
  • Program Committee Member of the 12th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2014, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 7-11 September, 2014.
  • General Chair of the 2nd Asia Pacific conference on Business Process Management, Brisbane, Australia, 3-4 July 2014.
  • Program Committee Member of the 2nd Asia Pacific conference on Business Process Management, Brisbane, Australia, 3-4 July 2014.
  • Program Committee Member of the 1st Asia Pacific conference on Business Process Management, Beijing, China, 30 August 2013.
  • Program Co-Chair of the YAWL Symposium 2013, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 7 June 2013.
  • Program Committee Member of the second Chinese Conference on Business Process Management, China BPM 2012, Beijing, China, 27 and 28 August 2012.
  • Senior program committee member of the 10th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, September 2012.
  • Senior program committee member of the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France, August/September 2011.
  • Member of the program committee of the first Chinese Business Process Management Conference, China BPM 2011, Beijing, China, August 2011. I gave the keynote speech at this conference.
  • Senior program committee member of the 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2010, New York, New York, USA, September 2010.
  • Senior program committee member of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2009, Ulm, Germany, September 2009.
  • Program co-chair of the First International Workshop on Process Management for Highly Dynamic and Pervasive Scenarios, PM4HDPS, Milan, Italy, September 2008.
  • Senior program committee member of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2008, Milan, Italy, September 2008.
  • Program Committee Member of the 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments, WaGe08, Kunming, China, May 2008.
  • Program Committee Member of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007, Brisbane, Australia, September 2007.
  • Workshop Co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007, Brisbane, Australia, September 2007.
  • Program Committee Member of the Twelfth International Workshop on Exploring Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD'2007, Trondheim, Norway, June 2007.
  • Program Committee Member of the 4th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2006, Vienna, Austria, September 2006.
  • Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM'05), Agia Napa, Cyprus, November 2005.
  • Program Committee Member of the 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2005, Nancy, France, September 2005.
  • Program Committee Member of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER2004, Shanghai, China, November 2004.
  • Program Committee Member of the 2nd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2004, Potsdam, Germany, June 2004.
  • Program Committee Member of the Eleventh International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS'2003, Catania, Sicily, Italy, November 2003.
  • Program co-chair of the Conference on Business Process Management: On the Application of "Process-Aware" Information Systems, BPM'2003, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2003.
  • Program Committee Member of the Fourteenth Australasian Database Conference, ADC'2003, Adelaide, Australia, February 2003.
  • Program Committee Member of the Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS'2002, University of California, Irvine, October/November 2002.
  • Program Committee Member of the 13th Australasian Database Conference, ADC'2002, Melbourne, Australia, January/February 2002.
  • Program Committee Member of the 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE'01, Kyoto, Japan, December 2001.
  • Program Committee Member of PACCS'01: Post-graduate ADFA Conference for Computer Science 2001, Canberra, Australia, 14th July 2001.
  • Program Committee Member of Sixth CAiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD'01, Interlaken, Switzerland, June 2001.
  • Program Committee Member of ADC-2001, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, January/February 2001.
  • Program Committee Member of Workshop on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises, ITVE2001 (held in conjunction with Twelfth Australasian Database Conference (ADC2001)), Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 29-30 January 2001.
  • Program Committee Member of 2nd Australasian Workshop on Computational Logic, AWCL'01, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, January 2001.
  • Program Committee Member of ADC-2000, Canberra, ACT, Australia, January/February 2000.
  • Program Committee Member of Workflow Management'99 conference, Muenster, Germany, November 1999.

International Links (past and present)


  • Marlon Dumas, Swedbank Professor of Software Engineering, University of Tartu, Estonia.
  • Theo van der Weide, Professor at the Radboud University in The Netherlands.
  • Wil van der Aalst, Professor at RWTH Aachen in Germany. Wil van der Aalst is also an adjunct professor at QUT.
  • Hajo Reijers, Professor at Utrecht University in The Netherlands.
  • Andreas Hense, Professor at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.
  • Massimiliano de Leoni, Assistant Professor at University of Padua in Italy.
  • Jan Mendling, Professor at Vienna University of Economics, Austria.
  • Eric Verbeek, Scientific Engineer at Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands.
  • Massimo Mecella, Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome in Italy.
  • Jochen De Weerdt, Associate Professor at KU Leuven in Belgium.
  • António Rito Silva, Associate Professor at Técnico Lisboa in Portugal.
  • Maximilian Rőglinger, Professor at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.