On July 10, 2009 Dominic Müller successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Management of Data-driven Process Structures". The DBIS team is pleased to congratulate Dr. Müller on his successful defense (summa cum laude) and wishes him all the best for the future.

Dominic worked in the Corepro project which has been funded by Daimler Research. He was supervised from Professor Dr. Manfred Reichert. Until December 2007 Dominic and Manfred both worked at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. In January 2008, they moved to Ulm where Dominic finally defended his work.

Members of the PhD committee were Prof. Dr. Uwe Schöning (Chair), Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert, Prof. Dr. Peter Dadam, Prof. Dr. Helmuth Partsch, Prof. Dr. Franz Hauck, and Assoc. Prof. dr. Hajo Reijers (TU Eindhoven, External Referee).

The traditional "doctoral cap"

Dominic (centre) with Hajo Reijers (left) and Manfred Reichert (right)