
M.Sc.
Lukas Waidelich
Lukas Waidelich has been working in various roles in teaching, research, and knowledge transfer at Pforzheim University since 2018. He is currently employed as a research associate in national and international projects. In addition, he serves as a lecturer in the fields of Industrial Engineering and Business Informatics.
His research focuses on digital innovation & transformation as well as data privacy.
Lukas Waidelich holds a degree in Industrial Engineering with a focus on business model development, innovation and technology management, digital transformation, and business process management. Since 2023, he has been a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Business Informatics , Business Process Management , Innovation Management , Process Optimization , Technology Management , Digital Transformation
Business Administration and Engineering , Business Information Systems
Journal article
SCHUSTER, T., WAIDELICH, L., SCHNEIDER, A., LAMBERT, M. (2025). Risk Classification and Compliance of AI Systems under the EU AI Act. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2025 (17).
ANELLO, M., KÖLMEL, B., WAIDELICH, L. (2025). From Tradition to Transformation: Development of an Approach for Business Model Adaptation in Automotive Supplier SMEs. Digital Technologies Research and Applications, 4 (2), pp. 142–167.
BULANDER, R., KÖLMEL, B., WAIDELICH, L., SCHMERBER, L., FISCHER, L., MOUSSAREF, A. (2025). The Role of the Platform Economy in Transforming Automotive Suppliers: A Case Study of the Northern Black Forest. Platforms – ein internationales Open-Access-Journal, 3 (2), 21. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/platforms3020009.
WAIDELICH, L., SCHUSTER, T. (2024). Privacy Patterns Analysis: A Classification by Types, Strategies and Tactics of existing Patterns. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 1543-1553.
WAIDELICH, L., SCHUSTER, T. (2024). Exploring the Maturity of Privacy Patterns: A Case Study. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 1170-1175.
KÖLMEL, B., BORSCH, M., BULANDER, R., WAIDELICH, L., BRUGGER, T., KÜHN, A., WEYER, M., SCHMERBER, L., ... KRUTWIG, M. (2023). Quantifying the Economic and Financial Viability of NB-IoT and LoRaWAN Technologies: A Comprehensive Life Cycle Cost Analysis Using Pragmatic Computational Tools. Financial Technology and Innovation Sustainable Development , 2 (3), pp. 510-526.
WAIDELICH, L., KOELMEL, B., BULANDER, R., BRUGGER, T. (2022). Approaching a regional innovation ecosystem in the Northern Black Forest for a future-orientated economy and society. Procedia Computer Science, 204, pp. 253-260.
RÖSCH, D., SCHUSTER, T., WAIDELICH, L., ALPERS, S., BESKOROVAJNOV, W., GRÖLL, R., TRAN, H. (2020). Muster zur datenschutzorientierten Implementierung von IT-Diensten. Musterbasierte Umsetzung der DS-GVO aus System- und Prozesssicht. Zeitschrift für Datenschutz, 3 / 2020, 129-135.
WAIDELICH, L., RÖSCH, D., SCHUSTER, T., ALPERS, S. (2019). Privacy Control Patterns for Compliant Application of GDPR. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
RICHTER, A., KOELMEL, B., GACIC, T., WAIDELICH, L., GLASER, P. (2019). A Review of Fundamentals and Influential Factors of Artificial Intelligence. International Journal of Computer and Information Technology, 08 (05).
WAIDELICH, L., KOELMEL, B., RICHTER, A., BUTHMANN, P., WIRTH, J. (2019). Digitalisierungsreifegrad-Modelle für KMU. ERP Management, 15 (3), pp. 28-31.
SCHUSTER, T., WAIDELICH, L. (2019). Internetbasierte Mobilitätsdienste – Ein Lösungsansatz zur effizienten individuellen Mobilität? Journal für Mobilität und Verkehr, 02/2019, pp. 50 ff.
SCHUSTER, T., CHRISTOPH, J., RÖSCH, D., WAIDELICH, L. (2019). Current Progress in Cross-Platform Application Development - Evaluation of Frameworks for Mobile Application Development. International Journal On Advances in Software, 12 (1 & 2), pp. 30 - 45.
Chapter in Book
WAIDELICH, L., SCHUSTER, T. (2025). A Pattern-Based Approach to Data Privacy in Business Processes. In Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Filipa Ferrada (Eds.), Technological Innovation for AI-Powered Cyber-Physical Systems. DoCEIS 2025. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 759 ( ed., pp. 51-62). Cham: Springer.
WAIDELICH, L., LAMBERT, M., SCHUSTER, T. (2024). Evaluating Privacy Patterns Within Collaborative Frameworks for AI Ecosystem Development. In Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Angel Ortiz, Xavier Boucher, Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë (Eds.), Navigating Unpredictability: Collaborative Networks in Non-linear Worlds (1 ed., pp. 189-206). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
WAIDELICH, L., LAMBERT, M., AL-WASHASH, Z., KROSCHWALD, S., SCHUSTER, T., DÖRING, N. (2023). Using Large Language Models for the Enforcement of Consumer Rights in Germany. In Maślankowski, J., Marcinkowski, B., Rupino da Cunha, P. (eds) Digital Transformation. PLAIS EuroSymposium 2023. (Eds.), Digital Transformation. PLAIS EuroSymposium 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 495 ( ed., pp. 1-15). Springer.
WAIDELICH, L., SCHUSTER, T. (2023). Privacy Pattern Catalog Approach for GDPR Compliant Appliance: From Legal Requirements to Technology Design. In Jacek Maślankowski, Bartosz Marcinkowski, Paulo Rupino da Cunha (Eds.), Digital Transformation. PLAIS EuroSymposium 2023. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 495 (1 ed., pp. 88-102). Springer.
SCHUSTER, T., WAIDELICH, L. (2022). Maturity of Artificial Intelligence in SMEs: Privacy and Ethics Dimensions. In Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Angel Ortiz, Xavier Boucher, A. Luís Osório (Eds.), Collaborative Networks in Digitalization and Society 5.0 (1 ed., pp. 274-286). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
SCHUSTER, T., SCHUSTER, T., WAIDELICH, L., VOLZ, R. (2021). Maturity Models for the Assessment of Artificial Intelligence in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. In Stanislaw Wrycza, Jacek Maslankowski (Eds.), Digital Transformation (1st ed., pp. 22-36). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
SCHOBLIK, J., KOELMEL, B., BULANDER, R., RICHTER, A., WAIDELICH, L. (2020). Methoden des kundenzentrierten Innovationsmanagements als Basis der personalisierten Produkt-/Servicegestaltung. In Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband e. V. (Ed.), Dialogmarketing Perspektiven 2019/2020 ( ed., pp. 1-20). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
WAIDELICH, L., KOELMEL, B., RICHTER, A., BULANDER, R., GLASER, P. (2020). Product-Service Systems at a Glance. How Classification and Typification Contribute to Comprehensibility. In Mohammad S. Obaidat (Ed.), Communications in Computer and Information Science: E-Business and Telecommunications. 16th International Conference, ICETE 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 26–28, 2019, Revised Selected Papers, Volume1247 ( ed., pp. 61-84). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
SCHUSTER, T., WAIDELICH, L., ALPERS, S. (2020). Datenschutz im Marketing. In Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband e.V. (Ed.), Dialogmarketing Perspektiven 2019/2020 ( ed., pp. 73-83). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
RICHTER, A., GACIC, T., KOELMEL, B., WAIDELICH, L. (2019). Künstliche Intelligenz und potenzielle Anwendungsfelder im Marketing. In Deutscher Dialogmarketing Verband e.V. (Ed.), Dialogmarketing Perspektiven 2018/2019 ( ed., pp. 31-52). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
BULANDER, R., RICHTER, A., WAIDELICH, L. (2019). Produkt-Service-Systeme: Chancen, Eigenschaften und Einführungsprozess im Unternehmen. In Prof. Dr. Andreas Klein (Ed.), Der Controlling-Berater ( ed., pp. 149-164). Haufe.
Article in Proceedings
SCHNEIDER, A., WAIDELICH, L., SCHUSTER, T. (2025). Leveraging AI and RAG for Intuitive Retrieval of Privacy Patterns. 46th International Conference on Information Systems. TREO Papers of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
WAIDELICH, L., SCHUSTER, T. (2023). Literature Review on Privacy Patterns: Insights, Challenges and Future Directions Future Directions. ACIS 2023 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems.
SCHUSTER, T., GIEZA, M., KOELMEL, B., WAIDELICH, L. (2022). Digital Mobility Services for Communities: Flexible boarding points for campus ridesharing. EnviroInfo 2022 (pp. 257-266). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI).
SCHUSTER, T., VOLZ, R., WAIDELICH, L. (2021). Reifegradmodelle zur Bewertung Künstlicher Intelligenz in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. INFORMATIK 2021 (pp. 1237-1246). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI).
RICHTER, A., WAIDELICH, L., KOELMEL, B., BULANDER, R., GLASER, P., PROSKE, M., BRÜGMANN, S. (2019). Digitalisation and Future Challenges in Rural Areas: An Open Innovation based Research. Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - (Volume 1) (pp. 147-153).
RICHTER, A., KOELMEL, B., GLASER, P., WAIDELICH, L., BULANDER, R. (2019). A Review of Product-service System Design Methodologies. Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - (Volume 1) (pp. 115-126).
WAIDELICH, L., KOELMEL, B., BULANDER, R., RICHTER, A., GLASER, P. (2019). A Systematic Literature Review on Product-Service Systems Classifications and Types. Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - (Volume 1) (pp. 83-94).
SCHUSTER, T., RÖSCH, D., WAIDELICH, L., ALPERS, S., BESKOROVAJNOV, W., GRÖLL, R., TRAN, H. (2019). Muster zur praxisorientierten Umsetzung und konformen Nutzung der DSGVO. Konferenzband Informatik 2019.
SCHUSTER, T., RÖSCH, D., WAIDELICH, L., ALPERS, S. (2019). Privacy Control Patterns for Compliant Application of GDPR. In Proceedings 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems.
WAIDELICH, L., BULANDER, R., RICHTER, A., KOELMEL, B. (2018). Design Thinking Process Model Review.. A systematic literature review of current Design Thinking models in practice. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC). Conference Proceedings. Stuttgart 17.06.-20.06.2018 (pp. 45-53).