Curriculum Vitae

Hajo Reijers is an associate professor in Business Process Management, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), and a member of the Beta Research school of Operations Management and Logistics. He is also affiliated to TiasNimbas Business School, where he is involved in the operational excellence program. He is one of the founders of the Business Process Management Forum, a Dutch platform for the development and exchange of knowledge between industry and academia.

Hajo received a Ph.D. in Computer Science (2002), an M.Sc. in Computer Science (1994), and an M.Sc. in Technology and Society (cum laude) (1994), all from TU/e. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis while he was a manager with Deloitte. Previously, he also worked for Bakkenist Management Consultants and Accenture. As a consultant, he has been involved in various reengineering projects and workflow system implementations, particularly for governmental agencies and organizations offering financial services.

The focus of Hajo's academic research is on business process redesign, workflow management, business process modeling, and simulation. On these topics, he published over 150 scientific papers, chapters in edited books, and articles in professional journals. His work appeared in, for example, Information Systems, the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of Information Technology, the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Organization Studies, Computers & Industry and Omega. Hajo's thesis was nominated for the ASML dissertation price and has been published by Springer Verlag as a monograph in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science series.

Furthermore, Hajo is an associate editor in the editorial boards of the Journal of IT Case and Application Research and the Journal of Organizational Design and Engineering, a regular reviewer for Data and Knowledge Engineering, Decision Support Systems,  Computers & Industry, a senior member of the program committee for the Business Process Managememt conference (BPM), and for the past years a regular member of the program committees for the Business Information Systems (BIS) and Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) conferences. In 2009, he was the co-chair of the program committee of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management. Since 2004, he is also the project leader of the STW-granted project "Intelligent software tools for workflow process design." 

Hajo spent the spring of 2009 as a visiting scholar at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Earlier, he worked for short periods at Babson College (2004), Stevens Institute of Technology (2005), Pohang University of Science and Technology (2006), Zayed University (2006), the University of Technology Sydney (2007), and Queensland University of Technology (2007).

Hajo is married to Maddy and has two children, Timon and Mayu. He lives in Rosmalen in the southern part of the Netherlands, close to the city of 's-Hertogenbosch.

A full resume of Hajo Reijers can be found here.