Congratulations to Vera Künzle. She won the PhD Award at the First Int'l Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA'11) which took place in Campione d'Italia from June 29th - July 1st, 2011. SIMPDA'11 was organized by the IFIP Working Groups 2.6 and 2.12 and offered a forum where distinguished researchers from different communities could share their knowledge on data-driven process modeling, analysis and mining.

Vera Künzle was awarded with the prestigious SIMPDA PhD prize by the SIMPDA PhD Jury for the best research plan presented at the symposium.

Vera is a PhD student in the Database and Information Systems Institute (DBIS) and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert.  In her PhD project Vera aims at a deep and extensive understanding of the inherent relationships between processes and data in order to overcome some of the fundamental limitations known from activity-centered process management technology. This work is accomplished in the PHILharmonicFlows project which will provide a comprehensive framework enabling the integrated and flexible access to business processes, business data, and business functions.