Stephan Haarmann

Stephan Haarmann is a doctoral researcher at the Digital Engineering Faculty (DEF) of the University of Potsdam and the Hasso Plattner Institute. His research focuses on transparent business process management, decision support systems, and blockchain applications. He completed his Master's degree in IT Systems Engineering at DEF in 2018 and began his PhD in 2018. His work addresses challenges in knowledge-intensive processes, case management, and data-driven compliance, with contributions to frameworks like fragment-based case models and DMN integration with blockchain.

• Awarded the 2019 Graduate Award for his master's thesis on decision-aware compliance checking.
• Published extensively on topics including process modeling, blockchain for decision execution, and data-object cardinality constraints.
• Developed tools like fcm-js for fragment-based case management.

His research emphasizes system-wide integration of IT solutions with organizational processes, leveraging blockchain for transparency and formal methods for compliance verification. Key areas include decision modeling (DMN), flexible process choreography, and knowledge worker objectives.