Maximilian Röglinger

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Röglinger is Chair of Business Informatics and Value-Oriented Process Management at the University of Bayreuth and Managing Director of the FIM Research Institute for Information Management. He is also Deputy Director of the Business Informatics branch at Fraunhofer FIT and previously served as an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. He co-directs the Finance & Information Management program with TUM and co-moderates the Master's program in Digitalization & Entrepreneurship.

His research spans digital transformation, process mining, AI in business processes, strategic IT management, and digital innovation. He investigates how data-driven methods can enhance process decisions, how digital technologies reshape customer interactions, and how organizations can structure digital transformation initiatives. His work combines theoretical rigor with practical application across industries.

His recent publications (2023–2025) reveal a strong focus on generative AI integration in process mining and chatbots, human-AI collaboration in healthcare and logistics, process improvement systems, and digital ecosystems. He explores emerging topics like triadic delegation, explainable AI, and object-centric process mining from text.

Scientific recognitions include:

• Paper of the Year 2019, Electronic Markets
• Best Associate Editor Award, ECIS 2021
• Top 1.5% in BWL-Forschungsranking 2024
• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, European Journal of Information Systems 2023

Röglinger leads numerous publicly funded and industry-applied research projects with partners such as BMW, Siemens, Deutsche Bahn, Allianz, and Celonis. His work is supported by BMBF, ERDF, ERASMUS+, and Bavarian Research Foundation. He has co-founded the Digital Innovation Workshop, Digital Leadership Academy, and Fraunhofer Center for Process Intelligence.

He is active in the international research community as Associate Editor of Business & Information Systems Engineering and editorial board member of Electronic Markets and Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and regularly organizes tracks at ECIS and BPM conferences.