Current Activity
Jan vom Brocke is Hilti Chair of Business Process Management at the University of Liechtenstein, Director of the Institute of Information Systems and President of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS. Jan has more than 15 years of experience in IT and BPM projects and has published more than 200 refereed papers in the proceedings of internationally perceived conferences and established IS journals, including the Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ), Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) and MIS Quarterly (MISQ). He serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and acts as a guest editor e. g. in the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS). Jan is author and co-editor of 16 books, including Springer's International Handbook on Business Process Management and the recently published Springer book Green BPM - Towards the Sustainable Enterprise. Jan is a member in the EU Programme Committee of the 7th Framework Research Programme on ICT and serves as an advisor to a wide range of institutions. Apart from Liechtenstein Jan teaches at a number of internationally renowned universities including Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, the University of Turku in Finland and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

2007
Habilitation
(equivalent to post doctoral qualification) at the Faculty of Economics, University of Muenster, thesis: Service-Oriented Process Management. The Design of Organisations and Information Systems by Using Service-Oriented Architectures, Venia Legendi in Information Systems, final evaluation: January 24th, 2007.

2002
Doctorate
Dr. rer. pol. (equivalent to PhD in economics) at the Faculty of Economics, University of Muenster, Thesis: Reference Modelling. Towards Collaborative Arrangements of Design Processes.

1992 - 1998
Diploma
Dipl.-Wirt. Inform. (equivalent to Master of Science in Information Systems) at the Faculty of Economics, University of Muenster, subjects: Information Systems, Organisation Theory and Human Resource Management, Decision Science, Informatics, and Business Administration.

2011
Visiting Professor
AAU IS PhD-Program, Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia, Business Process Management, September 2011

2010
Visiting Professor
Turku School of Economics, Finnland, Business Process Management, November 2010

2010
Visiting Professor
AAU IS PhD-Program, Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia, Business Process Management, February 2010

2010
Visiting Professor
University of Agder, Norway, Enterprise Content Management, October 2010

2009
Visiting Professor
LUISS University, Rome, Business Process Management, Mai 2009

since 2009
Visiting Professor
University of Münster, Germany, Business Process Management

since 2008
President
Liechtenstein Chapter of the Association of Information Systems (LC-AIS), Representing the Association of Information Systems (AIS), Regionale Computer Society.

since 2008
Director
Competence Center on Business Process Management (CC-BPM), Enterprise Content Management (CC-ECM), Enterprise Ressource Planning (CC-ERP) und Interorganisational Processes (CC-B2X) Partner: Hilti, Hoval, Ivoclar Vivadent, Thyssen Krupp Presta, Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein.

2007
Research Fellow
Queensland University of Technology, Business Process Management Cluster (Prof. Rosemann), in September/October 2007, Brisbane, Australia.

2007
Visiting Professor
University of Warwick, United Kingdom, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (Prof. Higgott), Mai/April 2007.

since 2007
Visiting Professor
University of St. Gallen on IS-research methods in the PhD-program at the Institute of Information Management.

2005 - 2007
Director
Centre 'E-Learning' at the University of Muenster.

2004 - 2007
Project manager
European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) of the University of Muenster (Head: Prof. Becker), www.ercis.de.

2004 - 2005
Teaching position
University of Saarland, Faculty of Law and Economics, Professorship for Economics, esp. Information Management (Prof. Scholz).

2004
Research fellowship and teaching position
University College Dublin, Department of Management Information Systems, Ireland.

2003 - 2007
Director
Centre 'Internet Economics and Hybrid Systems', University of Muenster.

2002 - 2007
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems, Chair of Information Systems and Controlling (Prof. Grob), University of Muenster, Germany.

2001 - 2007
Director
Knowledge Network on Controlling Science', partners: the University of Duesseldorf, the University of Ilmenau, the University of Kaiserslau-tern, the Graduate School of Business Leipzig, the University of Muenster, and the University of Rostock.

2001
Research fellowship and teaching position
University of Bucharest, Romania, Open Distance Learning Department (Prof. Logofatu). 

2000 - 2001
Research fellowship and teaching position

University of Tartu, Estonia, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Prof. Sepp), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, 'Supplementary Study Program for Information Systems'.

1998 - 2002
Researcher, Lecturer and PhD candidate
Chair of Information Systems and Controlling Science (Prof. Grob), University of Muenster.

since 2009
Member
Scientific Council of Swisscleantech, the economic association for a sustainable and dynamic economy.

since 2009
SNF-Reviewer
Swiss National Science Foundation

since 2009
Member of Steering
European Commission for e-Skills, IT Professionalism in Europe.

since 2009
Research Partner
ARC-CCi Center of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovations.

since 2008
Member of the Committee
Research Commission of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Adviser to the Government on matters of Innovation and Technological Development.

since 2008
EU-Delegate
Program Committee of the 7th EU Research Support Program, Field of Information and Communicationtechnology.

since 2007
Board Member
Philosophy of Science-Center at the University of Münster.

since 2006
Management board member
Centre of 'Philosophy of Science' at the University of Muenster, partners from Social Science, Medical Science, Information Systems, Law, and Religious Studies.

since 2005
Associate Partner
EU Network of Excellence in Professional Learning (ProLearn).

1999 - 2007
Member of the Committee
Committee for Teaching and Student Affairs of the Univeritiy of Münster, Faculty of Commerce.

2008
Best Associate Editor Nominee
16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2008), Nominated Best Associate Editor, 143 Associated Editors.

2008
Best Paper Nominee
16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2008)
"A Business Process Perspective on Enterprise Content Management: Towards a Framework for Organisational Change", with Alexander Simons and Anne Cleven, out of total 566 submissions.

2007
EU Fellowship Award
University of Warwick, research grand, an empirical study of collaboration processes in research networks, funded by the Mobility Commitee of the EU-NoE GARNET.

2006
Best Paper Award
11th Annual Health Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, Award winner with the paper 'Supporting IS Innovation in a Healthcare Context Using Process Modelling' (together with: Ó. P. Scolaí, S. Kelly, C. Buddendick and S. Klein).

2004
DAAD scholarship
Scholarship for German professors at foreign universities, subject: Reference Process Modelling, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin, Ireland.

since 2002
Best PhD-Thesis Award 2002
at the University of Muenster for the best dissertation of the year at the Faculty of Economics (together with M. zur Mühlen).

since 2007
ERCIS
European Research Center for Information Systems

since 2006
VHB
Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.

since 2005
IADIS
International Association of the Devolpment of the Information Society.

since 2003
AIS
American Association of Information Systems

since 1996
GI
Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.