Felix obtained his PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2018 based on his thesis on Multi-perspective Process Mining under the supervision of Hajo Reijers and Wil van der Aalst. The thesis received awards both from the academic community through the Process Mining Dissertation Award 2019 at the 1st International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM) as well as from the industrial side with the Cleonis Thesis Award at Celosphere 2019. After his PhD, he worked for three years as Research Scientist at the Norwegian research institute SINTEF in Trondheim and was appointed part-time Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2019. Felix published more 30 peer-reviewed publications and also contributed contributed significantly to the leading open-source Process Mining frameworks ProM and bupaR. He organised two workshops on Trust and Privacy aspects of Process Analytics at major conferences (I3E and ICPM) and served on the program committe of several workshops as well as the BPM and ICPM conferences.

Understanding the right granularity of data and refining it to that granularity are fundamental problems for data and process science both regarding generating value from data and regarding ethical questions.