Dr. Stephan Kühnel
| Dr. rer. pol. Stephan Kühnel | Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Dr. Stephan Kühnel | Consultation appointments: by arrangement Phone: +49 345 55 234 77 Email: stephan.kuehnel@wiwi.uni-halle.de |
Dr. Stephan Kühnel is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Information Systems and Operations Research at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and works as lecturer, project leader, evaluation officer, and academic staff representative at the Departments of Business Administration, Economics as well as Business Informatics & Operations Research. He received his Ph.D. in Business Informatics from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, focusing on approaches for the economic evaluation of business process compliance. The results of his dissertation formed the basis for applying for the BMBF-funded project ProBITS, of which he leads the subproject MEBITS. His practical experience includes both working as a data analyst and data scientist, as well as consulting start-ups and associations on the implementation of regulatory requirements. His research interests are mainly in compliance and information security management, as well as in current challenges of design science and data science projects. His research has been published in journals, such as the Journal of Decision Systems and ACM Computing Surveys, and in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, such as the European Conference on Information Systems and the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling.
Profiles:Overview
Education
| Aug. 2019 Doctorate/PhD (Dr. rer. pol), summa cum laude, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| Sept. 2013 - Nov. 2013: Language studies, Oxford House College (London) |
| Sept. 2013: Master of Science in Business Administration, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| Mar. 2011: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
Practical Experience
| Since Apr. 2021: Project Manager, Project ProBITS (BMBF funded), Subproject MEBITS |
| Apr. 2021 - Sept. 2021: Assistant Lecturer at the Chair of Information Systems, esp. Business Information Management (during the research sabbatical of Prof. Dr. Sackmann) |
| Since Apr. 2020: Evaluation Officer, Faculty of Law and Economics, Economics Department, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| Since Sept. 2019: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chair of Information Systems, especially Business Information Management, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| Sept. 2014 - Jan. 2021: Deputy Equal Opportunities Officer, Faculty of Law and Economics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| Jun. 2016 - Nov. 2019: Compliance and Controlling at a local start-up company in the field of online retail/sales (textile industry) |
| Nov. 2013 - Aug. 2019: Research Assistant, Chair of Business Information Systems, especially Business Information Management, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| Oct. 2016 - Jun. 2018 Chief Financial Officer and 2nd Chairman, Kixx'n'Trixx e.V (honorary) |
| Sept. 2016 - Mar. 2017: Data Analyst at Heidelberg University Hospital (Pediatric Cardiac Surgery), analysis of right ventricular pressure data collected during cardiac echocardiographies of children |
| Jun. 2014 - Jul. 2015: Data Scientist at GISA GmbH, development of prediction models for customer switching behavior |
Publications and Presentations
Acquisition of Third-Party Funds
| Project: "Prozess-orientierte wirtschaftliche Bewertung und Auswahl von IT-Sicherheitsmaßnahmen" (ProBITS) Total project volume: 1,39 Mio.€ (of which 83% is funded by the BMBF) Subproject at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: "MEBITS: Multikriterielles Entscheidungsmodell zur prozessorientierten wirtschaftlichen Bewertung und Analyse von IT-Sicherheitsmaßnahmen Subproject amount: 315.627,92€ Project leaders: Dr. Stephan Kühnel, Prof. Dr. Stefan Sackmann Duration: 01.04.2021 - 31.03.2024 Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) Project management agency: Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) Funding program: "Ökonomische Aspekte von IT-Sicherheit und Privatheit" |
| Project: "Augmented Living Spaces für kognitiv beeinträchtigte Menschen" (ALiS) Total funding amount: 344.267,74 € Subproject at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg:"Konzeption und Evaluation von Augmented Living Spaces für kognitiv beeinträchtigte Menschen" (KEvALIS) Subproject amount: 196.183,58€ Project leader: Prof. Dr. Stefan Sackmann Duration: 01.04.2021 - 31.03.2023 Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) project management agency: Jülich Funding program: "Wandel durch Innovation in der Region (WIR!)" |
| Project: "Sichtbarmachung des Data Science Process Models"(DASC-PM) Total funding amount: 12.618,20€ Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Michael Schulz, Prof. Dr. Jens Kaufmann, Dr. Stephan Kühnel, Duration: 01/2022 - 04/2022 Funding: NORDAKADEMIE-Stiftung Funding program: "Wissenschaft und Forschung" |
Prizes, Awards and Scholarships
| Date | Description |
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| 2022 | Best Paper in Track "Design Science in IS Research", 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Paper: "Preserve Autonomy - Developing and Implementing a Design Theory for Augmented Living Spaces" |
| 2022 | Best Research-in-Progress Paper Runner Up, 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Paper: "Conceptualization and Design of a Workflow Management System Front End for Augmented Reality Headsets" |
| 2022 | Best-Paper-Award of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Business Informatics for the paper "HySLAC – A Conceptual Model for Service Level Agreement Compliance in Hybrid Cloud Architectures" |
| 2022 | Teaching Award (1 place), donated by Volkswagen Financial Services |
| 2021 | Best-Paper-Award of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Business Informatics for the paper "Maintaining Business Process Compliance Despite Changes: A Decision Support Approach Based on Process Adaptations" |
| 2020 | Awarded the 1st prize of the Scidea Coding Contest for "EconBPC" - A Tool for the Economic Assessment and Analysis of Business Process Compliance |
| 2020 | Winner of the L. W. Kantorowitsch-Forschungspreis (L. W. Kantorowitsch Research Award) in the category of best dissertation, awarded by the Institut für Unternehmensforschung und Unternehmensführung (Institute for Business Research and Business Administration) |
| 2020 | Best-Paper-Award of the Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg in Business Informatics for the paper "Conceptualization, Design, and Implementation of EconBPC – A Software Artifact for the Economic Analysis of Business Process Compliance" |
| 2020 | Awarded the "Luther-Urkunde" of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. |
| 2019 | Nomination as finalist for the "Nachwuchsförderpreis des Berufsverbands der Compliance Manager (BCM)" in the award category "Best Dissertations" (2nd place) |
| 2019 | Best-Paper-Award of the Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg in Business Informatics for the paper "An Approach Toward the Economic Assessment of Business Process Compliance" |
| 2018 | Best-Paper-Award of the Martin Luther University Halle- Wittenberg in Business Informatics for the paper "A Taxonomy of Compliance Processes for Business Process Compliance" |
| 2017 | Hugo-Junkers-Award, runner-up price in the category most innovative alliance |
| 2013 | Best Master's Degree (M.Sc. Business Studies), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| 2011 | Best Bachelor's Degree (B.Sc. Business Studies), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| 2008-2013 | Scholarships of the Dr. Arthur Pfungst Foundation and the Spener'sche Foundation |
Track Chair and Workshop Organization
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| 2023 | Organizer of the Third International Workshop on Current Information Security and Compliance Issues in Information System Research (CIISR 2023) which takes place at Paderborn University on September 18, 2023, as part of the 18th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2023) |
| 2023 | Track Chair of the ICTs for Sustainable and Intelligent Mobility Solutions minitrack at the 29th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2023) in Panama City (Panama), August 10-12, 2023. |
| 2023 | Chair of the track Business Process Management at the 25th IEEE international Conference on Business Informatics in Prague (Czech), June 21-23, 2023. |
| 2022 | Organizer of the Second International Workshop on Current Compliance Issues in Information System Research (CIISR 2022) which takes place at Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg on February 20, 2022, as part of the 17th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2022) |
| 2021 | Organizer of the first workshop on the topic "Where is the Science in Data Science Projects" (WISDAP'21), which will be held as part of the 51st Annual Conference of the German Informatics Society (INFORMATIK 2021) in Berlin, Germany and online. |
| 2021 | Organizer of the First International Workshop on Current Compliance Issues in Information System Research (CIISR 2021), which took place online (initially at the University of Duisburg/Essen, Germany) on March 9, 2021, as part of the 16th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2021). |
Associate Editor and Program Committee
| Date | Description |
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| 2023 | Associate Editor of the track "IT Strategie, Management und Governance" of the 18th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2023), in Paderborn, Germany. |
| 2022 | Program Committee Member of the Conference Modellierung 2022, June 27 - July 01, 2022 in Hamburg, Germany. |
| 2022 | Associate Editor of the track "IT Strategie, Management und Governance" of the 17th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2022), February 21-23, 2022 in Nuremberg, Germany. |
| 2021 | Program Committee Member of the 3rd Workshop on Value and Quality of Enterprise Modelling (VEnMo 2021), in conjunction with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics (IEEE CBI 2021), September 01- 03, 2021 in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. |
| 2021 | Program Committee Member of the 4th Workshop on Security and Privacy-enhanced Business Process Management (SPBP'21), co-located with the International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2021), September 6th, 2021 in Rome, Italy. |
| 2020 | Program Committee Member of the 2nd Workshop on Value and Quality of Enterprise Modelling (VEnMo 2020), in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Business Informatics (IEEE CBI 2020), June 22-24, 2020 in Antwerp, Belgium. |
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Supervision of theses
Dr. Kühnel was the primary supervisor/reviewer of more than 30 bachelor's and master's theses, of which the following selection was awarded research prizes:
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| Niedzela, Laura Maria (2020): "Ansätze zur wirtschaftlichen Bewertung von Geschäftsprozess- Compliance: Eine systematische Literaturanalyse" | Springer BestMasters 2021 |
| Purk, Richard (2018): "Methode zur Entwicklung von Prototypen im Design Science Research" | L. W. Kantorowitsch Research Award 2019 (Category: Best Masters Thesis) |