# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wil-van-der-aalst
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:15:41.286Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wil-van-der-aalst"
name: "Wil van der Aalst"
slug: "wil-van-der-aalst"
description: "Willibrordus Martinus Pancratius van der Aalst is a Dutch computer scientist and full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group. His research and teaching interests include information systems, workflow management, Petri nets, process mining, specification languages, and simulation. He is also known for his work on workflow patterns."
tagline: "Dutch computer scientist and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wil_van_der_Aalst_and_the_process_mining_science%2C_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-01-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.61
  momentum:             2.889182058047493
  historical:           5.901838666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.padsweb.rwth-aachen.de/wvdaalst/"
sources:
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    title: "Wil van der Aalst"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_van_der_Aalst"
    title: "Wil van der Aalst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_van_der_Aalst"
    title: "Wil van der Aalst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_van_der_Aalst"
    title: "Wil van der Aalst"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_van_der_Aalst"
    title: "Wil van der Aalst"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_van_der_Aalst"
    title: "Wil van der Aalst"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6524086"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump