Prof. Dr. Henderik A. Proper, Erik for friends, is Full Professor in Enterprise and Process Engineering in the Business Informatics Group at the TU Wien.He is co-author of a wide range of conference publications, chapters in books, journal papers, and books. His h-index according to google scholar is presently 45. During his career so-far, he supervised 15 as primary supervisor (Dutch: promotor), and 4 as co-supervisor (Dutch: medepromotor). Over the past ten years, he has regularly provided guest lectures within different MSc programmes offered by the University of Luxembourg (LU), the University of Lorraine (FR), the TU Wien (AT), the University of Namur (BE), Anerp University (BE), and TIAS (NL).Erik received his Master's degree from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands in May 1990, and received his PhD (with distinction) from the same University in April 1994. After receiving his PhD, Erik became a senior research fellow at the Computer Science Department of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. In 1995 he became a lecturer at the School of Information Systems from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. From 1997 to 2001, Erik worked in industry. First as a consultant at Origin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and later as a research consultant and principal scientist at the Ordina Institute for Research and Innovation, Gouda, The Netherlands.In June 2001, Erik returned to academia, where he became an adjunct Professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In September 2002, Erik became a Professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen.In January of 2008, he went back to combining industry and academia, by combining his Professorship with consulting and innovation at Capgemini, with the aim of more tightly combining his theoretical and practical work. Finally, in May 2010 Erik was awarded an FNR PEARL laureate, resulting in his move to the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology in Luxembourg. Until summer 2017, he continued his chair at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, in terms of an Adjunct Professorshop. In June 2017, the latter was also transitioned to Luxembourg in terms of an Adjunct Professorship in Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Luxembourg. In September 2018, Erik also became a (regular) Guest Professor at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria.Finally, in January 2023, Erik moved to the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) to take up a Full Professorship in Enterprise & Process Engineering within the Business Informatics Group.