Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Wolfgang Kratsch is co-head of the Business Process Management department at the reserach center Finance & Information Management (FIM) and at the business information systems branch of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT). He is also co-founder and co-head of the Center for Process Intelligence and post-doctoral researcher in Business Process Management at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth.

In research, teaching and practice, Mr. Kratsch deals with topics related to data-driven process management, such as the extraction, quality assurance and exploitation of relevant data sources, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods to use this data for context-sensitive process management, and the management of AI applications. From a methodological point of view, the focus is on design-oriented research (Design Science Research), resulting in prototypical implementations that can be taken up by future research, but also by immediate practical applications. In addition to numerous relevant publications, Mr. Kratsch is also involved in the scientific community as a reviewer for various journals and conferences.

Furthermore, Mr. Kratsch was and is involved in several different research and industry projects in the above research fields. In close cooperation with industrial partners, he thus contributes to applying the latest research findings to practice. He is also actively involved in the local start-up scene, contributing his own start-up experience. In teaching, he already gained extensive experience in the context of tutorials, lectures and seminars at the universities of Augsburg and Bayreuth.

Mr. Kratsch graduated from the University of Augsburg in 2017 with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Business Information Systems. After completing his doctorate at the University of Bayreuth on the topic of data-driven management of process networks (summa cum laude) in 2020, Mr. Kratsch founded the AI-spin-off credium GmbH, where he was responsible for topics related to data science & AI and built up a 15-person team with his co-founders. After a parallel side job as a postdoctoral researcher, Mr. Kratsch has been fully dedicated to science again since September 2022.