Join the Celonis Thesis Program

Celonis can provide access to the academic version of our software and help you analyze your own data. We can provide our expertise and help you get started. We will also connect you with fellow students and researchers through the Celonis community. This support is entirely provided online by signing up to our thesis program. Please do not contact us directly, but first follow the steps of this program. In some cases, we can also provide further support such as contact to experts or interviews. In these cases, we perform a pre-selection of relevant topics through a pitch, for which you can access a template after registration.

No! We especially encourage students from outside of Europe to take part in our Thesis Programme. We can fully support theses in English and German language.

Ideally, students suggest topics in agreement with their academic chairs. However, if you have a rough idea of what you would like to do and still need inspiration to define a topic, you can talk to us after signing up to our Thesis Programme, and we can suggest topics.

At the moment, we do not offer working student positions only for the purpose of writing a thesis. However, you can check our career page for open internship or working student positions and then contact us to find out if a combination with your thesis topic is possible.

Yes! Please also sign up for our thesis programme, and then directly book an appointment with our R&D Coordinator, who will be able to discuss the scope of our involvement.

This depends on your topic. If you only use our standard material and don’t need anything further you don’t need any documents. If you need access to internal information at Celonis, you have to sign a Non-Disclosure-Agreement (NDA). If your thesis will contain this internal information, your academic supervisor will have to sign an NDA as well, and the thesis must not be published. We will let you know if this applies to you.

If you already know your topic but do not have an academic supervisor yet, we can check within our network whether we know a suitable researcher who can support you. We cannot promise you that we will find somebody, but in most cases this is feasible. It depends on your university whether external supervisors are accepted.

External students (those not working at Celonis) are still mainly supervised by their academic supervisors. We provide some assistance, and the scope depends on the project. However, we do not have the capacity to support every thesis extensively.

As of August 2020, we have supported over 270 internal and external theses and student projects, out of which over 50 have taken place in the first half of 2020 alone.

Yes, but only if you use the academic version of our software just for the scope of the thesis project, and only you personally have access to the Celonis account. Any primarily commercial use of our academic version is prohibited, as stated in the terms of use.