CV
Personal information
Born July 19, 1970 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Married, three children
Lives in Bemmel, Gelderland, the Netherlands
My education
1982-1988: VWO (Athenaeum B), Hertog Jancollege, Valkenswaard.
1988-1993: MA English Language and Literature, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; specialised in Syntax en Semantics (theoretical linguistics); judicium: Cum Laude.
1993-1994: MA Linguistics (mostly applied linguistics), University of Wales, Bangor (funded by the Harting Scholarship scheme).
1998-2003: Part-time PhD project, University of Tilburg, later relocated at Radboud University. Field: Computer Science. PhD defence on Dec 10, 2003, Promotors prof. dr. Erik Proper and prof. dr. Mike Papazoglou, co-promotor dr. Hans Weigand. Thesis: Freezing Language: Conceptualisation Processes across ICT-Supported Organisations.
Employment record
1994-1996: Freelance “Specialized Reader” for the Oxford English Dictionary (historical lexicography).
1995-1998: Researcher at CentER Applied Research, institute for applied economic research at Tilburg University. Two projects: Grammalizer and TREVI (see “projects”)
1998-2000: Research consultant at the Ordina Institute for Research and Innovation (ICT industry), combined with PhD project (then at Tilburg University). Included coordination and teaching of several professional courses.
2000-2005: Lecturer and researcher at Radboud University, Information Retrieval and Information Systems dept. of iCIS; intensive involvement in initial organization of the Information (Informatiekunde) curriculum; teaching. Also, member of the ArchiMate team that conceived and implemented the ArchiMate Language for Enterprise Modelling (now a worldwide Open Group standard), resulting in a successful Springer Verlag book. Continuation of PhD project, resulting in successful defence of thesis in December 2003.
2005-current: Assistant Professor, iCIS (Radboud University), consecutively: Model-Based System Development dept. , Software Science dept., currently Data Science dept. (one day a week as of August 15, 2012).
2012-current: Lector (Professor of Applied Sciences), Model-Based Information Systems research group, School of IT and Mediadesign, HAN University of Applied Sciences (four days a week as of August 15, 2012).
Research
Publications
130+ publications (peer reviewed); Hirsch-index 27 based on publications known to Google Scholar. See here for the complete list. 11 highlights:
Bas van Gils, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, and Erik Proper: Conceptual Modeling in Digital Transformations. To appear in: proceedings of Conceptual Modelling in the "Digital First" Era — A Joint AIS SIGSAND/SIGPrag Workshop, June 20th 2022, online.
Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Henderik A. Proper and Maurice Nijssen (2019): Towards Key Principles of Fact Based Thinking. In: Christophe Debruyne, Hervé Panetto, Wided Guédria, Peter Bollen, Ioana Ciuciu, and Robert Meersman, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2018 Workshops Confederated International Workshops: EI2N, FBM, ICSP, and Meta4eS 2018, Valletta, Malta, October 22–26, 2018, Revised Selected Papers.
Hoppenbrouwers, Stijn: The Collaboration Perspective on Continuous Development. Keynote at the 4th Workshop on Continuous Requirements Engineering (CRE 2018), co-located with the 23rd International Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2018), Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 19, 2018. In: Joint Proceedings of REFSQ-2018 Workshops, ceur-ws.org/Vol-2075/CRE18_Keynote.pdf
Sandkuhl, Kurt; Fill, Hans-Georg; Hoppenbrouwers, Stijn; Krogstie, John; Matthes, Florian; Opdahl, Andreas; Schwabe, Gerhard; Uludag, Ömer; and Winter, Robert (2018) "From Expert Discipline to Common Practice: A Vision and Research Agenda for Extending the Reach of Enterprise Modeling," Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 60: Iss. 1, 69-80. Available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/bise/vol60/iss1/6
Jan Pieter Zwart, Marco Engelbart, and Stijn Hoppenbrouwers (2015): Fact Oriented Modeling with FCO-IM: Capturing Business Semantics in Data Models with Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling. NJ, USA: Technics Publications.
S.J.B.A. Hoppenbrouwers and E.A.J.A. Rouwette: A Dialogue Game for Analysing Group Model Building: Framing Collaborative Modelling and its Facilitation. In: R. Magalhaes (edt.), International Journal of Organisational Design and Engineering (IJODE), vol. 2, no. 1, p19-40; special issue on collaborative modeling. New York, USA: Interscience Publishers, 2012.
S.J.B.A. (Stijn) Hoppenbrouwers, H.A. (Erik) Proper, and Th.P. van der Weide. A Fundamental View on the Process of Conceptual Modeling. In: Conceptual Modeling - ER 2005 - 24 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol: 3716, Pages: 128-143, June, 2005, ISBN 3540293892.
G.E. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, S.J.B.A. (Stijn) Hoppenbrouwers, and H.A. (Erik) Proper. System Development as a Rational Communicative Process. In: Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Nr: 4, Vol: 2, pp47-51. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), 2004.
H. Jonkers, M.M. Lankhorst, R. van Buuren, S.J.B.A. (Stijn) Hoppenbrouwers, M. Bonsangue, and L. van der Torre. Concepts for Modeling Enterprise Architectures. In: International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Nr: 3, Vol: 13, Pages: 257-288, 2004.
S.J.B.A. (Stijn) Hoppenbrouwers. Freezing Language; Conceptualisation processes across ICT supported organisations. PhD Thesis, University of Nijmegen. December 2003, ISBN 9090173188.
J.J.A.C. Hoppenbrouwers, B. van der Vos, and S.J.B.A. Hoppenbrouwers. NL Structures and Conceptual Modelling: Grammalizing for KISS. In: Data & Knowledge Engineering, Nr: 1, Vol: 23, Pages: 79-92, 1997.
Major projects (applied research; selection)
After 2018, I've been less personally involved in project work & project management; for a selection of recent projects in my research group, see here.
DEMAND (Date Engineering and MANagement for Data chains), a NWO/SIA SPRONG 'trajectory' grant for furthering collaboration and practice-oriented research by HAN UAS, Fontys UAS and Saxion UAS. I am chief applicant ('pen holder') and programme manager. 2023-2026.
Flexibele Werkinstructies. RAAK MKB project sponsored by NWO/SIA, in close collaboration with the Lean/WCP research group @HAN, prof. Jannes Slomp. Concerns a generic approach for creating/generating custom works instructions for assemblage, both in terms of specific products in a small volume-high diversity context and in view of the different needs and capacity of infividual workers. Project lead: Mischa Corsius. 2023-2025
RegelSpraak I and II. Commissioned project by Dutch Tax Authority (Apeldoorn) concerning exploration of evaluative quality framework for their controlled natural language RegelSpraak, used to specify tax rules used for agile law execution. As part II, also formal specs format for operational semantics of Regelspraak. 2020-2022. With dr. Ilona Wilmont, Mischa Corsius, MA and Bas Hofmans, MSc. HAN UAS.
2018-2020, Practische Predictie, collaboration with Musculoskeletal Revalidation research group at HAN and Donders Centre, Radboud University: development of a clinical decision support system (‘lower back treatment’) for physiotherapists based on machine learning. HAN University of Applied Sciences. Sponsored by RAAK/SIO (NWO). Project lead: dr. Maya Sappelli. HAN UAS.
2017-2018 OMNIO: Service Experience and Organisation for the Environmental Law. In this project, led by Stijn's close colleague prof. Thea van der Geest and commissioned by the Dutch ministry of Environment and Infrastructure, HAN CIM developed an instrument to measure the impact of the new Environment Law on the experiences of citizens and civil servants concerning interactions between authorities, initiative takers and others involved, in particular digitally. This was combined with a study of the way service processes (law execution, civil procedures) are organised and structured. Also, a first baseline measurement was carried out, to be repeated several times in the next eight years. Apart from a large survey study, the project involved the design, execution and subsequent data analysis concerning six intensive collaborative modelling workshops involving 70 civil servants; Stijn designed and led the session part of the project. General project lead: dr. Thea van der Geest. HAN UAS.
2016-2018 Samenwerken, een kwestie van houding?! RAAK-Publiek project concerning the participatory development of digital/media support for helping social care professionals reflect on, and change their way, of collaborating in the context of dealing with multiple problem families. HAN University of Applied Sciences. Sponsored by RAAK/SIO (NWO). Project lead for Center IT+Media: Jasper Jeurens BSc. HAN UAS.
2015-2017 Dieetbehandeling bij cardiovasculair risicomanagement; hoe maken we resultaten transparant? RAAK-MKB project concerning digitally supported data collection by professional dieticians concerning the impact of treatments for people with a high risk of cardiovascular problems. HAN University of Applied Sciences. Sponsored by RAAK/SIO (NWO). Project lead for Center IT+Media: dr. Iona Wilmont. HAN UAS.
December 2014 - December 2015: "Learning to Act in Networks" ("Leren Acteren in Netwerken"), a HAN research project in collaboration with the GGM (Gezondheid, Gedrag en Maatchappij) faculty aiming to better educate healthcare professionals in how to work in a networked environment, including how to deal with digital aspects of networked cooperation. Sponsored by Provincie Gelderland. Project lead: dr. Erik de Vries. HAN UAS.
June 2010 - December 2011: took part in the Dutch government-sponsored Agile Service Development project. Active in Work Packages 1 and 3: “Agile Ways of Working in Service Development” and "Communication with Stakeholders". Results include the book Agile Service Development - Combining Adaptive Methods and Flexible Solutions (2012). Project lead: Mark Lankhorst. Telematica instituut / Radboud University.
2002-2003 Member of the initial ArchiMate project team creating the now internationally widely used ArchiMate language for enterprise architecture modelling. Co-author of the resulting bestselling Springer Verlag book Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modelling, Communication and Analysis. ArchiMate is now an Open Group standard. Project lead: dr. Mark Lankhorst. Telematica Instituut / Radboud University.
1997-1998 TREVI, subsidised by the European Commission, collaborative research project with industrial and academic partners from Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK, and Belgium. Development of a bilingual (English, Spanish) “basic level ontology” for use in an information filtering and enrichment system, also development of a workbench for bilingual ontology development. Project lead: dr. Olga de Troyer. Tilburg University.
1996-1997 Grammalizer, subsidised by Dutch ministry of economic affairs and KISS B.V. (Erp); grammatical text analyses as a basis for conceptual modelling; development of a supporting CASE tool. Project lead: dr. Hans Weigand. Tilburg University.
Further research activities:
Member of the national Graduate Committee of the Pilot Professional Doctorate for the 'Technology & Digitization' domain; chairman of the related Graduate Network.
Member of the advisory committee of the EFRO Oost programme, an EU grant scheme for regional research and innovation subsidies (also carried by Gelderland and Overijssel provinces). 2022-2027.
Co-organizer of RIDI 2023, the 1st European Workshop on Research for Impact in Digital Innovation, March 20-21, Frankfurt, Germany
Theme Leader 'Smart Innovation: Digital Twinning'
HAN UAS Focal Group "Smart Region", 2022 -presentTheme Leader 'Smart Innovation: AI'
HAN UAS Focal Group "Smart Region", 2020 -presentCo-organizer of the International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language
(CNL) 2021Co-organizer of Fact-Based Modelling (FBM) International Workshops, 2017-2019
Affiliated Researcher at Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology, Luxemburg (2011-2022)
2009-2012, guest researcher at the Faculty of Management Science, Methods Department (prof. Jacques Vennix, dr. Etienne Rouwette), collaborating on Dialogue Games for System Analysis.
Member of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) WG8.1 since 2007.
Member of the School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS) since 1998 (Dutch national academic research school).
Member of the editorial review board of the International Journal of Information System Modelling and Design, IJISMD, 2009-2021 (IGI Global)
Associate Editor of the journal Organizational Design and Enterprise Engineering, ODEE, since 2016 (Springer)
Member of the steering committee of the IFIP WG8.1 Working Conferences on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling, since 2010
Invited contributor at the 2016 Dagstuhl Seminar 16192: "Supporting Organizational Efficiency and Agility: Models, Languages and Software Systems". Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik. May 8-13, 2016.
Keynote Speaker at the 2021 and 2022 Paptekindo International Seminar and Annual Conference, Manado, Indonesia (online): "Data Science in Higher Professional Education: Innovation and Applied Research Embedded in Curricula and Institutes".
Keynote Speaker at the 2020 Enterprise Engineering Working Conference: "A Linguistic Perspective on Fact Based Modelling and DEMO".
Keynote speaker at the 4th Workshop on Continuous Requirements Engineering (CRE 2018), co-located with the 23rd International Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2018).
Keynote speaker at the the 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Information Systems Engineering (COGNISE 2014), held in conjunction with CAiSE’14, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 17, 2014.
Co-organizer of the Enterprise Engineering Seminar series (together with Hogeschool Utrecht and LIST, Luxembourg); 2012-2022.
Primary organizer and co-chair of the 2012 minitrack on Collaborative Modeling of HICSS-45, Hawaii, USA (January 2012).
Primary organizer and general chair of the 3rd IFIP WG 8.1. Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling PoEM 2010 (Delft, the Netherlands, Nov 2010).
Primary organizer and general chair of the 4th SIKS Conference on Enterprise Information Systems EIS 2009 (Ravenstein, the Netherlands, Oct 2009).
Primary organizer and co-chair of Regulations Modeling and Deployment workshop (ReMoD 2008), in conjunction with CAiSE 2008, Montpellier, France.
Organizer and chair of a special focus symposium on Language Management and Language Engineering: the Cybernetics of Language. At: InterSymp-2004, 16th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics (2004), Baden-Baden, Germany.
Member of the Program Committees of or reviewer for various international conferences and workshops (if marked with *: yearly): ACIS, AI and Games, AppEER, BIS, BITA*, CAiSE, CAiSE Forum, CBI*, CIAO, COGNISE*, CRE*, ECIS*, EEWC*, EIS, EMMSAD*, ORM/FBM*, GRCIS, HICCS, MCIS, MGC, MoRoCo, PoEM*, PRET/TEAR, RCIS, S-BPM ONE, SeDeS, SYSIAC, T4SIS4T, WI, and more
Reviews for journals: BISE, COMIND, DKE, SYSIAC, SSM, IJCIS, IJeC, ISF, IST, ICIS, IJODE, IJISMD, IJTDM, and more
A number of commissioned reviews of books and monographs for international publishers.
Reviews of research proposals for the Belgian and Austrian national research funding authorities.
Co-promotor of:
Denis Ssebuggwawo (2008-2012) RU
Dirk van der Linden (2010-2014) RU
Marija Bjekovic (2014-2018) RU
Ilona Wilmont (2009-2020) RU/HAN
Theo Theunissen (2019-2023) UU/HAN
Inge van Schie (2020-present) RU/HAN
Erik Folgering (2021-present) RU/HAN
Arjen Maris (2021-present) UT/HAN
PhD manuscript committee:
N. Moens (Free University of Amsterdam), 2010
E. Kameni (Radboud University), 2018
M. Mulder (Radboud University), 2022
PhD promotion committee:
N. Moens (Free University of Amsterdam), 2010
M. Pscheidt (Radboud University Nijmegen), 2012
B. Lijnse (Radboud University Nijmegen), 2013
R. Wagter (Radboud University Nijmegen), 2013
F. Tulinayo (Radboud University Nijmegen), 2014
T.T. Asfaw (Radboud University Nijmegen), 2014
W. Omona (Radboud University Nijmegen), 2014
R. Ssekibuule (Radboud University, Nijmegen), 2016
R. Ettema (Radboud University, Nijmegen), 2016
R. Ssekibuule (Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2017
G. Plataniotis (Radboud University, Nijmegen), 2017
E. Kameni (Radboud University Nijmegen), 2018
M. Masoud Khamis (Radboud Universiteit), 2020
M. Mulder (Radboud University), 2022
Work in Education
Supervision of 80+ master’s theses and 20+ bachelor's theses at Radboud University (as primary supervisor), mostly in the Master Information Science.
Member of the national Graduate Committee of the Pilot Professional Doctorate for the domein 'Technology & Digitalization': central coordination and quality committee, evaluation and admission of PD candidates/proposals. Special task: organising the national Graduate Network for the domain.
Received a BKO (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs - Basic Qualification for Education) certificate from Radboud University, portfolio-based, in 2011.
Professional education courses presently taught:
Part of the team developing and teaching the Master Applied Data Science (MADS) at HAN UAS, starting September 2023 (accredited November 2022.). Subjects: data management & data engineering, research skills, project coaching
Regular one-day workshop 'Data Semantics' in Minor Applied Data Science at HAN School of Applied Biosciences and Chemistry
Regular guest lectures at HAN AIM, professional profiles 'Data Solutions Development' and 'Business Informatics and Management'.
Academic courses presently taught:
Systems Approach to Organisation and Information, yearly guest lectures and essay assignment (Radboud U., Master Information Science, since 2017)
Past, professional education:
‘Stakeholder Communication & Collaborative Modelling’, series of 8 lectures in the Requirements Engineering part of the course ‘Information System Engineering’; HAN bachelor HBO-ICT, 2013-2019
Past, academic education:
Knowledge Representation for Information Science, course development, teaching and assessing; (Radboud U., Master Information Science, yearly 2018-2022, 3 EC, with dr. Eelco Herder)
Requirements Engineering (bachelor information science and computer science, 2004-2012) RU
Business Rules Specification and Application (master information science, 2008-2015) with Ilona Wilmont. RU
Research Methods 2 (master information science, 2005-2011) RU
Introduction to Information and Computing Science (bachelor information science and computer science, 2002-2011) RU
Research & Development (bachelor information science) RU
Guest lectures 'Collaborative Data Modelling' at Utrecht University
Communicative Aspects of Information Systems (bachelor information science) RU
Quality of Information Systems (bachelor information science) RU
Applied Logic for Systems Design (bachelor information science and computer science) RU
Negotiation: theory and practice (bachelor information science) RU
SIKS national research school:
“Architecture and Organisation” (one module, PhD students, part of "Enterprise Architecture" course, 2006)
"Collaborative Modelling in Agile Environments", (one module, PhD students, part of "Principles of Intelligent Organization" course, 2012); co-organizer of the course
Professional courses taught:
Coordination of the series “Trends in IT”; Ordina, Gouda (1999)
Knowledge Management; Ordina, Gouda (1999)
Requirements and Knowledge Modelling with Stakeholders; Be Informed B.V., Apeldoorn (2009)
Academic Teaching Qualification (BKO): received certificate of Radboud University in Januari 2012 after a one year evaluation track centring on the writing and gathering of an educational portfolio concerning my nineteen years of academic teaching experience at that point.
Numerous Public Relations activities at Radboud, structurally including 4VWO dagen, plenary presentations at Bachelor Voorlichting, HBO voorlichting, campusdagen, Pre University College lessons and masterclasses at secondary schools in the region, proefstuderen, 'Nijmeegse Tweedaagse'; also PR activities for the Master of Information System Design at HAN (2012).
Past curriculum design: part of the team designing the original Informatiekunde (information sciences) curriculum, in effect 2003-2012. To this day: regular close cooperation with educational coordinators concerning vision, design and operationalisation of the curriculum taught.
Intensive involvement in the curriculum and organisation of the Master of Information Systems Design (MISD), HAN University of Applies Sciences, 2012-2013.
Participation in a number of visitations/assessments of Master programmes in higher education, including all external assessments of Information Science at Radboud University (as a participant, and as a member of the ‘proef-visitatie’ committee in 2017)
Valorisation (consultancy and work with industry; selection)
2019 Two-day workshop 'Business-IT Integration and BPM' at Luminor Bank, Riga, Latvia
2017-2018 Hydra: Canonical Data Model. Facilitation, contracted advice and consultancy concerning the enterprise-wide creation of a core set of data concepts as the basis of the HAN Data Governance effort.
2015 Member of the two-person 'Assessment Committee of the Caesar Programme', together with Denis Hageman, assigned by the Director of the Statistics Division of De Nederlandsche Bank (Dutch National Bank), concerning the assessment of a five-year programme at DNB to introduce and implement a data-driven way of working, including IT, architectural, data management and organisational aspects. The final report directly addressed the Board of DNB.
2014 Design, facilitation and organisation of a series of 9 scenario-oriented strategic workshops involving key employees at HAN, gathering input for the HAN IT Strategy 2015-2020.
2007: Research consultancy at Everest B.V., den Bosch (one day a week, contracted).
2006-2007 Member of the Business Rules focal group of the Dutch National Architecture Forum.
2008-2009: Member of the Simulation and Gaming focal group of the Dutch National Architecture Forum.
2007 Co-translator to Dutch of the internationally influential Business Rules Manifesto, and of the RuleSpeak method for structured verbalization of business rules (with Silvie Spreeuwenberg of LibRT B.V.).
Management experience
Head of the Data & Knowledge Engineering research group ("lectoraat") at HAN UAS, Faculty of Engineering; 2012-present. Formerly named 'Model-Based Information Systems', 2012-2022.
Head (primus inter pares, formal responsibility) of the HAN Center IT+Media, the 3 joint research groups of the Informatica Communicatie Academie (HAN UAS), 2015-2020.
Core member of the advisory board of the focal area 'SLIM' at HAN UAS
Management work for iCIS (until 2012): PhD Coordinator of iCIS (involving a group of around 50 PhD students). Official task description:
To support, and protect the interests of, PhD students at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at the Radboud University Nijmegen, in a general sense (not concerning the contents of the PhD work).
To give advice on PhD matters to individual PhD students, their supervisors, or to the board of iCIS. In these matters, the Coordinator has an independent position.
Confidential counselor for the PhD students.
2001-2002: member of the OC Informatica en Informatiekunde (education quality committee).
Awards
Harting Scholarship (English Language and Literature), 1993-1994
Book of the Year award from the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS), 2004. For PhD thesis “Freezing Language, Conceptualisation Processes across ICT-Supported Organisations”
NAF Architecture Award 2008 (Netherlands Architecture Forum) for the ArchiMate team, of which I was a core member
Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow, Silver Medal for Europe, 2009. For article: “A BPM Tale from the Financial Crisis Front Lines” (with Eric D. Schabell)
Best paper award at the 5th IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2012, Rostock, Germany, Nov 2012) for the paper "Challenges of Identifying Communities with Shared Semantics in Enterprise Modeling", by Dirk van der Linden and Stijn Hoppenbrouwers.