About

From mechanical engineering to process analytics

A short version of how the pieces fit together.

The short versionNow

I am doing a master's in Management and Technology at TUM with a specialisation in informatics, and working alongside it in Deloitte's Center for Process Bionics on process mining engagements.

Day to day that means Celonis, Python and SQL on the data side, and slides on the other side, because an analysis nobody acts on is not finished.

Portrait of Maximilian Michels

How I got hereBackground

I started in industrial engineering and mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen, with a specialisation in automotive engineering, and tutored mathematics and thermodynamics along the way.

A semester at Politecnico di Milano in management engineering shifted the balance towards the management side, and my bachelor thesis on where artificial intelligence creates value pushed it further towards analytics.

Porsche Connect gave me product management, Dr. Wieselhuber & Partner gave me consulting and the tooling to go with it, and Deloitte is where the two currently meet.

How I workApproach

I build the thing rather than specify it. The process mining tool at Wieselhuber, the dashboards, the workshop, this site, all of it came from noticing something missing and making it instead of writing a requirement for it.

I care about the handover. Analysis that stays in the analyst's tool is not value, so most of my effort goes into getting a result into a form somebody else can use.

Where I studiedEducation

  • Technical University of Munich
  • Politecnico di Milano
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Max von Laue Gymnasium

Full education and work history

Outside the courseworkActivities

2026 to present

NeurodiversiTUM

Board member and website lead

Student club making university life work better for neurodivergent students.

Designed and built the club website end to end, including a light and dark theme, text scaling, an easy reading font and German and English content.

Jul 2025

IDEA League Summer School

Participant

Empowering decision aiding, evaluation approaches to complexity. Held in Milan.

Jan 2023 to present

e-fellows.net

Scholarship holder

Networking, career offers and academic resources.

Oct 2022 to Mar 2025

Interdisciplinary teaching project Leonardo

Participant

Additional courses on the energy transition, sustainability, medicine and social responsibility.

Rather read the record?

The experience page carries the full work and education history with dates and detail.

See the experience
Get in touch