Elgar Fleisch is an Austrian/Swiss academic, Professor of Technology Management at the University of Saint Gallen and Professor of Information Management at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich.
Education
Fleisch received his Bachelor in mechanical engineering in 1987 at the HTL in Bregenz, his Ma in business economics at the Vienna University of Technology, and in 1993 his Doctor of Philosophy in the area of Artificial Intelligence. In 1994 he completed his habilitation at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Saint Gallen (HSG) on corporate networks.
Career
In 1996 Fleisch had interrupted his postdoctoral research for a year and founded the company Image Americas in Philadelphia, United States of America. In 2000 he became assistant professor at the HSG. In 2002 he is appointed Professor at the Institute for Technology Management at the University of Saint Gallen (Institut für Theoretische Elektrotechnik und Mikroelektronik-HSG). In 2004 he also became professor of Information Management at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics (MTEC). Ever since the emergence of the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) in 1999, Fleisch"s research interest focussed on the merger of the physical and digital worlds to an Internet of things.
He aims to understand this merger in the dimensions of technology, applications and implications and, based on new technologies and applications for the benefit of the developing business and society.
Fleisch has organized its research into five research laboratories that span each over both universities, combine technology and economics and are theoretically grounded and anchored in practice. All projects take place in close cooperation with the industry, which resulted in numerous scientific papers and the introduction of nine startups.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).