Prof. Dr. Elgar Fleisch

Prof. Dr. Elgar Fleisch
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Elgar Fleisch is a full Professor of Information and Technology Management at the ETH Zurich (Department of Management, Technology, and Economy (D-MTEC)) and University of St. Gallen (HSG) and Director of the external pageInstitute of Technology Management (ITEM-HSG).

At both affiliations, Elgar Fleisch heads a team of postdocs and doctoral students. He organizes his research in three labs, which cover the disciplines of computer sciences, information systems, management and psychology.

Research Interest

For more than 20 years, Elgar Fleisch’s research interests has focused on the current merging of the physical with the digital world into an Internet of Things. With his transdisciplinary team, he aims to understand this fusion in the dimensions of technology, applications, business models and social implications and, based on this, to develop new technologies and applications for the benefit of the economy and society.
All research projects are joint efforts of industry and academia; their results are published in more than 600 scientific journals and books of different disciplines.

Short CV

Elgar Fleisch, born in 1968 in Bregenz, Austria, graduated from the HTL Bregenz in mechanical engineering, then studied business information technology in Vienna and completed his doctoral thesis in the field of artificial intelligence in 1993. After his habilitation on the subject of “Network Enterprises and various intermediate stations”, he was appointed to the HSG in 2002 and additionally to the ETH in 2004. Elgar Fleisch spent his sabbaticals at MIT and Dartmouth College, both in the USA.

Elgar Fleisch is co-founder of several spin-off and start-up companies, and member of various academic steering committees and several management boards.

For a detailed CV please contact Mrs. Elisabeth Vetsch-Keller.

Publications

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