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.

Department for Management and Economics

Priv.-Doz. Ing. 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

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heike Köckler

Heike Köckler is professor for social space and health at the University of Health Bochum. Her work focuses on environmental justice, urban and community health, and transdisciplinary and transformative research.

Univ.-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.

Univ.-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).

Dr. Cornelia Sindermann

Cornelia Sindermann conducts research at the University of Stuttgart on the relationship between opinion formation and information acquisition (fake news, filter bubbles, echo chambers), digital business models and the data economy, and systems for promoting democracy. She studied psychology at the University of Ulm, Germany, and her research took her to the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu and the University of Toledo (USA). She participated in the DiDaT project, among others.