In the context of the celebration of the 51th anniversary of Ulm University on 20 July 2018, Dr. Andreas Lanz received the doctoral thesis award of the Ulmer Universitätsgesellschaft for the best Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science in 2017.

The DBIS team is pleased to congratulate Andreas on this great honor and the award he received for his Ph.D. thesis entitled „Adaptive Time- and Process-Aware Information Systems“. Andreas' PhD advisor and PhD promotor has been Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert; Prof. Dr. Roberto Posenato from the University of Verona was Andreas‘ co-supervisor.

In his thesis, Dr. Lanz developed innovative concepts, technologies and algorithms for the specification, enactment, monitoring, and adaptation of temporal constraints in process-aware information systems. The huge complexity of this work is due to the integration of the temporal perspective along all stages of the process lifecycle, which necessitates formal foundations (e.g., on correctness issues) as well as efficient algorithms. The results obtained in the thesis are groundbreaking and have been already well cited in the scientific literature. In particular, Dr. Lanz succeeded in balancing theoretical concerns with practical demands in an excellent way.