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Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Andreas HOLZINGER
PhD, MSc, MPh, BEng, CEng, DipEd, MBCS
Head of Research Unit Human-Computer Interaction,
Institute of Medical Informatics, Medical University Graz

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Andreas started his scientific career - due to his second chance education and industrial work experience - as recently as 1999 and since then he participated in leading positions in 29 R&D multi-national projects with a total budget of 2,8 MEUR, and is author and editor of 270 publications with 1580 citations, h-index = 21 g-Index = 38 (> publications) and provided 190 lectures and talks (as of 01/2011).

Andreas was Visiting Professor of Information and Knowledge Management at the Nations Health Career Center, Berlin, Germany (02/03); Visiting Professor at Innsbruck University, Institute for Organization & Learning (winter term 04/05); Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Software Technology & Interactive Systems (winter term 05/06); Visiting Professor at Middlesex University London (UK), School of Computing Science (summer term 07); and Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Business and Economics, Health Information and Knowledge Management (since winter term 06/07).

Andreas is currently head of the Research Unit HCI4MED, Institute of Medical Informatics, Medical University Graz; Associate Professor (Univ.-Doz.) of Information Processing at the Institute of Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM), Faculty of Informatics, Graz University of Technology and chair of the Workgroup Human–Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering (HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). He is founder and leader of the Special Interest Groups HCI4MED and HCI4EDU and since November 2009 Austrian Representative in the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), Technical Committee TC 13 Human-Computer Interaction HCI.

Andreas, born 1963, married, two children, started his career as apprentice in Information Technology (IT) in 1978, finishing as Radio- and Television Technician (1981); Foreman in Industrial Electronics (1983); College of Further Education Bournemouth (UK) with honors in Computer Science (1985/86); After extensive industrial experience, during which he attended evening classes, he was awarded Chartered Engineer for Communications and Information Technology (CEng, 1990); Diploma as Lecturer for Adult Education (DipEd, 1992); Studies of Communication and Information Engineering (BEng, 1993), Physics and Psychology (MSc, 1995) as well as Media Pedagogy and Sociology (MPh, 1996) at Graz University of Technology and Graz University. Doctoral promotion with summa cum laude in Cognitive Science (PhD, 1997). Second Doctorate (Habilitation, venia docendi) in Information Processing, Faculty of Computer Science, Graz University of Technology (Assoc. Prof., 2003).

Mission Statement: Research & Development and Consulting to realize easier, simpler and faster usable Information Systems. Strongly committed to Human-Centered Design.

Subjects (according to ACM classification):  Informatics/Computer Science - D. Software and H. Information Systems in J.3 Life and Medical Sciences & K.3 Computers & Education (> research)

         Research papers by Andreas Holzinger  Curriculum vitae of Andreas Holzinger (pdf, 998 kB) > Curriculum Vitae of Andreas Holzinger 

Andreas serves as consultant for the Austrian, German and Dutch Government and national expert in the European Commission (EC) in the eEurope e-Learning Initiative "eEurope: an information society for all" and was member of the Steering Committee “New Media in Teaching at Austrian Universities” (Lisbon Delegate 2000). He is Industrial Consultant, member of the European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), and professional member of the ACM, IEEE, AACE, GI, GMW, the German Society of Psychology (DGP) and board member of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). He directed numerous successful R&D projects and organized national and international conferences. He serves as reviewer and in the board of numerous reputed Journals and international conferences and is evaluator for both national and international organizations.

Contact:
A-8036 Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 2/V
Tel.:++43 316 385 13883
Fax: ++43 316 385 13590
E-Mail: andreas.holzinger@medunigraz.at


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