Oliver Günther - Dean -




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Curriculum Vitae


Oliver Günther is Dean of  Humboldt’s School of Business and Economics. He also directs  Humboldt’s Institute of Information Systems  and its  Interdisciplinary Center on Ubiquitous Information.

Professor Günther has conducted research projects in the areas of enterprise information systems, IT strategy, security and privacy, digital asset management, collaborative software, database management, as well as geographic and environmental information systems. His list of publications includes 19 books and more than 150 papers on related topics. He is Associate Editor of Wirtschaftsinformatik, GeoInformatica, the International Journal on Geographic Information Science, the Journal of Environmental Informatics, the International Journal of Automated Identification Technology, and of Business + Innovation. He was one of the founders of the SSD symposium series on spatial databases, and he has served on more than 60 conference program committees.

Professor Günther has coordinated several large research projects funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Ministry of Economics and Technology, and the German Research Foundation. From 1996 until 2006 he served as Director of the Berlin-Brandenburg Graduate School of Information Systems. Oliver Günther has held visiting faculty positions at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci in Paris, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Cape Town.

Oliver Günther has served as a consultant and board member to various government agencies and high-tech companies. He was Chairman of the Board of Poptel AG, Germany's first voice-over-IP company, and Chief Technology Officer of Teamtoolz, Inc., a San Francisco-based application service provider for the marketing and advertising industry. Professor Günther currently serves as Vice-President of the German Informatics Society, President of the German-American Association for Scientific Cooperation in Computer Science, member of the Advisory Board of SAP Research, and member of the admissions committee of the German National Academic Foundation.

As a high school student, Oliver Günther was a two-time winner of Germany's National Mathematics Competition. He holds a Diplom in Industrial Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Between his Ph.D. and his appointment at Humboldt, he held positions with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and with FAW Ulm.


Recent Publications

  1. O. Günther, Die Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Humboldt-Spektrum 4/2009, 2009
  2. O. Günther, S. Schmerbach, Deutsche Universitäten im Umbruch – 20 Jahre nach der Wende, erscheint in: F. Keuper, D. Puchta (Hrsg.), 20 Jahre Mauerfall, Gabler, 2009
  3. O. Günther, Mit dem Bachelor ganz nach oben, Tagesspiegel, 24.09.2009
  4. O. Günther, Warum promovieren wir?, Forschung und Lehre, 7/09, 2009
  5. O. Günther, Dean versus Dekan – Ein universitäres Selbstverwaltungsamt im Umbruch, Forschung und Lehre, 4/09, 2009
  6. O. Günther, H. Krasnova, D. Riehle, V. Schöndienst, Modeling Microblogging Adoption in the Enterprise, Proc. 15th Americas Conf. on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2009
  7. S. Evdokimov, B. Fabian, O. Günther, Multipolarity for the Object Naming Service, Proc. Internet of Things 2008, 2008
  8. H. Krasnova, T. Hildebrand, O. Günther, A. Kovrigin, A. Nowobilska, Why Participate in an Online Social Network: An Empirical Analysis, Proc. 16th European Conf. on Information Systems (ECIS), 2008
  9. B. Fabian, O. Günther, Security Challenges of the EPC Network, to appear in Communications of the ACM, 2009.
  10. O. Günther, G. Tamm, F. Leymann, Pricing Web Services, Int. J. Business Process Integration and Management 2(2):132-140, 2007.
  11. S. Evdokimov, M. Fischmann, O. Günther, Provable Security for Outsourcing Database Operations, Proc. 22nd IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering, 2006.
  12. B. Fabian, O. Günther, S. Spiekermann, Security Analysis of the Object Name Service, Proc. First IEEE Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 2005.
  13. O. Günther, S. Spiekermann, RFID and the Perception of Control: The Consumer's View, Communications of the ACM 48(9):73-76, 2005.
  14. B. Berendt, O. Günther, S. Spiekermann, Privacy in E-Commerce: Stated Preferences vs. Actual Behavior, Communications of the ACM 48(4):101-106, 2005.

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