Vera Meister

Vera Meister is a Professor of Business Informatics at the Department of Economics, Brandenburg University of Technology (TH Brandenburg) since 2013, specializing in business applications and knowledge management with expertise in semantic technologies and process modeling.

Her educational background includes:

• Diplom-Mathematikerin (Mathematics) from State University of Kharkiv, Ukraine (1977)
• Dr. rer. nat. (Natural Sciences) from St. Petersburg State University, Russia (1988)
• Additional studies in 'Economics for Engineers and Scientists' from FernUniversität Hagen (2000)

Professor Meister's research integrates business process modeling (BPMN, CMMN, DMN, SBVR) with semantic knowledge technologies (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL), extending to IT governance frameworks (ITIL, COBIT), project management methodologies (PRINCE2, PMBOK), and competency-based e-learning systems. Her work emphasizes practical implementations in organizational contexts through tools like Camunda, Protégé, and OntoWiki.

Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on applying semantic web standards to business process optimization and IT sourcing management, with interdisciplinary connections between knowledge engineering and project governance frameworks.

She actively contributes to academic leadership as Head of TH Brandenburg's IT Commission, Deputy Ombudsman for Scientific Integrity, and Deputy Speaker of the German-speaking Working Group on Business Informatics at Universities of Applied Sciences. She also serves as ASIIN accreditation reviewer for Business Informatics programs and participates in the Departmental Council for Economics.

Professor Meister maintains significant international collaborations with Alfred Nobel University in Dnipro (Ukraine) for teaching exchanges, Gdansk University of Technology (Poland) for semantic text analysis research, and University of Economics in Katowice (Poland) for International Week participation, focusing on joint courses in Social Network Analysis and Business Process Modeling.