University of Hildesheim, Institute for Economics and Information Systems, Hildesheim, Germany, ralf.knackstedt@uni-hildesheim.de

Ralf Knackstedt is Full Professor of the Institute for Economics and Information Systems, department for Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. His research areas include Reference Modelling, Product Service Systems, Conceptual Modelling and Business Process Management. Previous to his work at the institute, he received his doctoral degree and his habilitation at the University of Münster, Germany and worked at the European Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). His work has been published in leading academic journals and conferences such as Business Information Systems Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Communications of the AIS, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems and Enterprise Modelling, and Information Systems Architectures. His Ph.D. thesis has won the dissertation award from the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.