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Current Professional Activities:

Currently, I am head of the Swiss Institute for Information Research - SII at the University of Applied Sciences – HTW Chur, in Chur, Switzerland. The SII comprises all Information Science related research activities as well as study programs such as the Bachelor of Science- (BSc) and Master of Science (MSc) in Information Science (planned as of September 2010) as well as the Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Information Science.

The SII focuses on the development and application of methods and concepts in order to cope with the challenges of production, organization, and distribution of knowledge and information in all fields of business, administration, and societiy. The research areas are as follows: Archival Sciences and Records Management, Library Science and Library Consulting, Information Management, Information and Media Literacy, Information Engineering.

Personally, my major research interests concern changing patterns of communication and interaction arising from the emerging Digital Economy. I am especially interested in the fields of Electronic Markets and Electronic-, Mobile-, or ‘Ubiquitous’ Business, or, in more general terms, in the increasing importance of ‘information’ in societies and its impact, especially on value creation. Developments to watch are especially the areas of 'Ubiquitous Computing', 'Ambient Intelligence', or ‘Web 2.0’.
See my personal Blog (HD's Two Cents - Themen rund um die Informationswissenschaft (German only)) for further discussions and statements.

For the well accepted international academic journal 'Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business' I am serving as an Associate Editor.

In 2004 – 2006 I was a Professor (acting) at the Institute for Information Systems (Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Muenster, Germany, and - during the winter term 2004/05 - at the Institute for Management at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.  

Before, I was working as a Senior Research Associate and Senior Lecturer at the =mcminstitute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland where I was responsible for the research group Competence Center Electronic Markets CCEM and other CCEM-related projects at the =mcminstitute.

During the summer term 2001 I hold an interim chair for Information Management (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

In 1999 I joined BRIE - Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, University of California, Berkeley, as a Visiting Scholar for three months.

 

Some Personal Infos:

Interests:

• Travelling, especially to Asia and the USA

• Sports like skiing, hiking, jogging, and sailing.
   
   

Address:

Hans-Dieter Zimmermann
Professor, Dr. oec. HSG
Swiss Institute for Information Research SII
University of Applied Sciences - HTW Chur
Ringstrasse/ Pulvermuehlestrasse 57
7000 Chur, Switzerland

E-Mail: hans-dieter.zimmermann (at) htwchur.ch

Skype: hdzimmermann

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