Prof. Dr. Luise Pufahl

Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Pufahl's (*1986) field of research is the area of business process management and process mining. Her main research interests include analyzing and automating resource- and knowledge-intensive business processes using a range of techniques, such as operations research, process mining, simulation, and machine learning. Additionally, she investigates the use of data-aware methods for handling regulations and promoting sustainability in business processes. Her research has practical applications in industries such as healthcare and logistic.

Prof. Pufahl has studied Information Systems at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. After her doctorate at the Hasso Plattner Institut at the University of Potsdam and research stays in The Netherlands and Austria, she worked as a postdoc at the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2022, she led the software and business engineering research group as an interim professor. Since 2023, she has been at the TUM, Campus Heilbronn (research group Information Systems).

Awards

• Best paper award of the Process Technology Forum at the BPM Conference (mit Koautoren)  (2025)
• CIT teaching award for outstanding teaching in a compulsory course in the summer semester of 2024 for Enterprise Architecture Management and Reference Modeling
• TUM Supervisory Award (2024)
• Runner-up award for the Test of Time Award at the BPM Conference (mit Koautoren) (2023)
• Best student research paper award at the International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (mit Koautoren) (2014)