Biography:Marcus Birkenkrahe
Marcus Birkenkrahe | |
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| Born | Speh 29 December 1963 Bad Kreuznach, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Organization | Berlin School of Economics and Law |
| Title | Professor of Business Information Systems |
| Awards | Best of Web Award 1994[1] |
Marcus Birkenkrahe (born 29 December 1963 as Marcus Speh in Bad Kreuznach, Germany ) is a physicist and information architect who also works as an executive coach.[2]
After obtaining his Abitur in 1983, Birkenkrahe studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the University of Hamburg. In 1994, he worked as a research assistant at DESY in Zeuthen near Berlin and earned his doctorate with a dissertation on multigrid computations for lattice gauge theories using object-oriented, literate programming.[3] As co-founder and chairman of the Globewide Network Academy (GNA), he received the awards for "Best Campus-Wide Information System"[4] and "Best Educational Site"[1] at the First World-Wide Web conference (WWW1) in Geneva, Switzerland in 1994. Between 1995 and 2001 he worked as a corporate IT executive for Accenture and Royal Dutch Shell.[5] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), London (1998–2008) and has been a registered expert and reviewer for knowledge management for the European Union since 1999. In 2002, he served as a visiting professor for knowledge management at the University of Auckland Business School where he won the "Best Paper 2002" award of the University of Auckland Business Review.[6][7]
Since 2007, Birkenkrahe is a professor of management information systems at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, a German University of Applied Sciences[8] and Head of E-Learning (since 2008). He serves as member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Big Data Management[9] and of the International Journal of Data Science.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Best of Web Awards 1994 - Educational Service
- ↑ German Economics magazine "Brandeins", June 2006
- ↑ DESY Library of Dissertations
- ↑ Best of the Web Awards 1994, Best Campus-Wide Information System
- ↑ London School Of Economics Complexity Research Group
- ↑ University of Auckland Business School News
- ↑ It's A Small World, Interview, IKmagazine, June 2002
- ↑ Faculty profile Berlin School of Economics and Law
- ↑ Int. J. of Big Data Management
- ↑ Int. J. of Data Science
External links
- Personal blog.
- Faculty Profile - at Berlin School of Economics and Law.
- Wikiversity Userpage.
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