Univ.Prof. Dr. Sarah Spiekermann

Head of Institute for Management Information Systems

Vienna University of Economics and Business

Augasse 2-6

1090 Vienna

homepage: Prof._Dr._Sarah_Spiekermann

Scientific Fields of Interest

<electronic commerce>, <electronic marketing>, <software agents>, <privacy>, <consumer behaviour>, <CRM>, <personalization>, <recommender systems>, <location based services>, <RFID>, <ubiquitous computing>, <knowledge management>.

Short Biography

Sarah is Chair of the Institute for Management Information Systems at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien) and Adjunct Professor at the Heinz College of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA). Before starting her career in Vienna in the fall of 2009, she completed her Habilitation at the Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany) and held an Adjunct Professor position with the European Business School (EBS).

Sarah has published over 50 articles and 2 books in the area of IS and Ubiquitous Computing, in particular on electronic privacy, RFID, personalization/CRM, user interaction behaviour in E-Commerce and M-Commerce environments as well as knowledge management. Publications have appeared in reknown outlets such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, European Journal of Information Systems and various high-ranked conferences. A key goal of her work is to investigate the importance of behavioral constructs and social values for IT design and to refine the concept of ethical computing in an E-Society.

From 2004 to 2008 Sarah headed the Berlin Research Centre on Internet Economics (InterVal) at Humboldt University where she received her Ph.D. in 2001. Besides her education in IS Sarah holds a Master of Business from the European School of Management (ESCP-EAP) and a Master of Science from Aston University (Birmingham, UK). Before starting her academic career she worked as a strategy consultant for A.T. Kearney and led the EMEA Business Intelligence for Openwave Systems.