Boris Otto

Prof. Boris Otto (born in Hamburg, Germany in 1971) became the executive director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST in Dortmund on January 1, 2017. Since September of 2013, he has held the Chair for Industrial Information Management (until August 31, 2018 the Audi Foundation Chair for Supply Net Order Management) at the LogistikCampus of TU Dortmund. He is also a member of the boards of directors of the Gaia-X, European Association for Data and Cloud, AISBL and the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA).

After studying industrial engineering in Hamburg, Otto did his doctorate at the University of Stuttgart under Prof. Hans-Jörg Bullinger, former president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. He habilitated at the University of St. Gallen’s Institute of Information Management, where he founded and managed the Corporate Data Quality competence center. His career path also included PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO. Furthermore, Otto was a Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. He joined Fraunhofer ISST in 2014 with the founding of the Fraunhofer Innovation Center for Logistics and IT (FILIT).

Otto’s research focuses on the fields of industrial information management, business and logistics networks, and methods for the design of digital business solutions.

Education

• Habilitation (Post-Doctoral Qualification) Universität St. Gallen-Hochschule für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften (2006 — 2012)
• PhD Universität Stuttgart (2000 — 2002)
• Dipl.-Ing. oec. Hamburg University of Technology (1992 — 1999)
• Instituto Superior Técnico (1997 — 1997)

Companies

• Professor TU Dortmund University (2018)
• Executive Director Fraunhofer-Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik ISST (2017)
• Member of the Advisory Board CDQ - Sharing Data Excellence (2015)
• Audi-Endowed Chair of Supply Net Order Management TU Dortmund University (2013 — 2018)
• Director Information Management & Engineering Fraunhofer IML (2013 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor & Head of CC Corporate Data Quality University of St. Gallen (2006 — 2013)
• Research Fellow Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (2011 — 2012)
• Principal Business Consultant SAP (2003 — 2006)
• Head of Competence Center Electronic Business Integration Fraunhofer IAO (2000 — 2003)