Visiting and Honorary Professorships

Department for E-Governance and Administration

Prof. Dr. Edimara Mezzomo Luciano

Edimara Mezzomo Luciano is Professor of Management Information Systems at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Luciano completed her PhD in Administration at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. She is a visiting scholar in the Information Systems and Innovation Research Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In Krems, she will participate in the PhD program "Technology, Innovation, and Cohesive Societies" and work on high-quality articles in relevant journals.

Prof. Dr. Uwe Serdült

Uwe Serdült is a professor at the College of Information Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University in Japan and a senior researcher at the Centre for Democracy Aarau (ZDA) at the University of Zurich. He also heads the Digital Governance Systems Lab at Ritsumeikan University. His research interests lie in the field of digital governance, particularly internet-based platforms and tools for citizens (e-participation) and public administration (e-government).

Prof. Dr. Fred Van Eenenaam

Fred Van Eenenaam is a professor at the Erasmus School of Accounting and Assurance, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research interests focus on strategy and governance from a cross-sectoral perspective. Professor Eenenaam also has many years of experience in the design and implementation of executive-level university programmes.

Prof. Dr. Mila Gasco-Hernandez 

Mila Gasco-Hernandez is a professor at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research interests focus on information and technology in government, e-government and open government, e-governance, innovation in the public sector, smart cities, and AI in government.

Department for Management and Economics

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Ronald Hochreiter

Ronald Hochreiter is a lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in the Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics and works as a management consultant. With his PhD in Computational Management Science and his Habilitation in Business Administration, he spans an application-oriented scientific arc. In research and teaching, he investigates ways to apply artificial intelligence in business management.  He pays particular attention to the areas of finance (FinTech/RegTech/SupTech) and health care.

Department for Knowledge and Communication Management

Prof. Dr. Martin Bertau

Martin Bertau received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg/Br. in 1997 and then worked for Rohner AG in Basel. In 2000, he moved to TU Dresden, where he habilitated in 2005. Since 2006, he has been head of the Institute of Technical Chemistry at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. He is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Raw Materials Efficiency Prize by the Federal Minister of Economics, among other honours. The processes he has developed for raw materials extraction have all been transferred to industrial application.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Laubichler

Manfred Laubichler is Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology at Arizona State University (USA) and contributes to the Santa Fe Institute, among others. He studied zoology at the University of Vienna, biology at Yale University, and history at Princeton University. His research interests include theoretical biology, evolutionary developmental biology, complexity theory, cultural history of science, and digital humanities.

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Michael Obersteiner

Michael Obersteiner is the Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. His focal points of research are issues of global land use and the sustainable economics of the Earth system. Previously, he was Director of the Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IISA) in Laxenburg, Austria. Many scientific studies have been produced during his management, supporting national governments and international organizations.

Prof. Dr. em. ETH Zürich Roland W. Scholz

Roland Scholz is professor emeritus at ETH Zurich. He dealt with environmental modeling and ecologically sustainable system transitions and is one of the pioneers of transdisciplinary research. Together with the IASS Potsdam, he is currently working on the sustainable use of digital data in the DiDaT project (Digital Data as Subject of a Transdisciplinary Process).

Assoc. Prof. Susanne Strohmaier

Susanne Strohmaier is deputy head of the Department of Epidemiology at the Medical University of Vienna. She completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard and Vienna, among other places. She holds a degree in technical mathematics, an MSc in statistics and a PhD in biostatistics. Strohmaier has a strong national and international network and is committed to evidence-based health research.