Manfred has been PC Co-chair of the BPM’08, CoopIS’11, EMISA'13 and EDOC'13 conferences, and General Chair of the BPM’09 and IEEE EDOC'14 conferences. Further, he was chairman of the GI SIG EMISA (Special Interest Group on Development Methods for Information Systems and their Application; 700 members) and is still member of the steering committee of the GI Special Interest Group on Databases and Information Systems.

Manfred has been participating in numerous national and international research projects (e.g., EU FP7, DFG, NWO, BMBF, Industry) and contributed more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in the BPM field. His scientific contributions obtained several best paper awards (e.g., EDOC'08, CoopIS'05 / OTM'05) and research prizes (e.g., Merckle Forschungspreis, IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award, doIT Software Award).

Manfred's h-index currently shows a score of more than 60 (according to Google Scholar), and many of his scientific papers have been very influential; e.g., he co-authored the two most cited articles of the Data & Knowledge Engineering journal during the last five years and is regularly publishing his work at premium conferences like BPM, CAiSE, ER, CoopIS, ICWS, ICSOC, and ICDE.