Giselher Pankratz

Professor Giselher Pankratz serves as Head of University at the Deutsche Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches IT and IT management, process management, and payments systems. His courses include SAP exercises, IT project management, cashless payment instruments, bank management business games, and payment transaction case studies.

He earned his economics degree specializing in business informatics from the University of Siegen and completed his PhD at FernUniversität in Hagen under Professor Hermann Gehring, receiving the Stinnes Logistics Award in 2003 for his dissertation. His research spans combinatorial auctions, heuristic decision-making approaches, multi-objective optimization, process management, requirements analysis patterns, cyber laundering technology, and Distributed Ledger Technologies.

Professor Pankratz's publication history reveals an evolution from logistics optimization (2000-2010) toward blockchain applications (2019), with consistent focus on combinatorial auctions and transportation systems. His work bridges theoretical operations research with practical financial technology applications, particularly in payment systems and distributed ledgers.

• Stinnes Logistics Award 2003 (for doctoral dissertation)

As a peer reviewer for international journals and coordinator of research projects sponsored by Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, he has lectured in Bachelor's and Master's programs at Hagen Institute for Management Studies and Danube University Krems. His academic leadership extends to editing works like 'Intelligent Decision Support' (2008) and 'Intelligente Systeme zur Entscheidungsunterstützung' (2008).

While specific lab affiliations aren't detailed, his research involved collaborations at FernUniversität in Hagen and practical industry projects, particularly in transportation logistics and payment systems development.