Dr. Dennis Riehle has been appointed junior professor and head of the Business Informatics and Smart Data research group at the Institute of Business and Management Informatics at the University in Koblenz on April 1, 2021. In addition, the 31-year-old heads the Enterprise-of-Things Lab, which focuses on novel technologies and information infrastructures in the field of the Internet-of-Things (IoT).

In the Internet-of-Things, technologies of a global infrastructure of information societies are developed. Through them, physical and virtual objects are to be interconnected and they are to interact through information and communication technologies.

Born in Karlsruhe, he completed his studies in business informatics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. There he subsequently also successfully completed his doctorate on the topic of "Digitalization and Automation of Compliance Management - A Model-based Method vor Ensuring Business Process Compliance" in November 2019. In the context of research projects, Riehle was a visiting scientist at the University of Sydney, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Liechtenstein. As a lecturer, he taught at the University of Osnabrück, the University of Hildesheim and the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.

Riehle is (co-)author of more than 30 scientific publications. His research interests are in the area of Smart Data data sets, which are extracted from larger data sets according to certain structures and obtain meaningful information - especially data management and data analysis. As part of the EoTLab, Riehle is particularly researching data acquisition by sensors, the processing of measurement data in suitable IT infrastructures, and the provision of integrated data on a central data platform.

In his private life, the versatile computer scientist enjoys skiing and is also active as a ski instructor; he also likes to play soccer.