Hajo Reijers is a full professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University (UU), where he holds the chair in "Business Process Management and Analytics". Next to this position, he is appointed as a part-time, full professor in "Business Process Technology" at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is also an adjunct professor in the School of Information Systems, Science and Engineering Faculty, at Queensland University of Technology. In addition, he teaches at the Tias School for Business and Society, where he is one of the core lecturers in the Executive Master of Operations and Supply Chain Excellence (MOS) program. He was also 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. Hajo led the BPM research group at Perceptive Software from 2012 to 2014. From 2014 to 2018, he was appointed as a full professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
The focus of Hajo's academic research is on business process redesign, process automation, conceptual modeling, and enterprise information systems. 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
Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal and the
Journal of
Organizational Design and Engineering; he is also a member of
the editorial board of
Computers
& Industry. He
regularly reviews for
Data
and Knowledge Engineering and
Decision Support Systems. He is a senior
member of the program committee for the Business
Process Managememt conference (BPM) and a member of the
program board of the International Conference on Advanced Information
Systems Engineering (CAiSE). He was co-chair of the program
committee for both BPM 2009 and CAiSE 2018.
Hajo spent the summer of 2012 as a visiting professor at the Queensland University of Technology and 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, again, Queensland University of Technology (2007).
Hajo is married to Maddy and has two children, Timon and Mayu. He lives in the southern part of the Netherlands, close to the city of 's-Hertogenbosch.
A full resume of Hajo Reijers can be found here.