Published over 150 research papers in top-tier venues including ACM WWW, ACM KDD, ACM CIKM, ACM Hypertext, ACM IUI, ACM Transactions on the Web, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, ACM Transactions on Social Computing, Nature Scientific Reports, and PLOS ONE
Recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards, including the Best Paper Award at the 24th ACM International Conference on the World Wide Web (WWW 2015, Core A* conference)
Serves as Associate Editor for SpringerOpen’s EPJ Data Science Journal and Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Member of the steering committee of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
Regularly involved in organizing international conferences and serving on program committees and as a reviewer for prestigious journals
Research Experience
Project leader of numerous national and international basic and applied research projects such as NiN, KODE, NAVTAG, CORONET, EPHRAS, Sprichwort, and Austria-Forum
Former Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Graz University of Technology (2011–2021)
Responsible for study programs in Computer Science, Software Engineering and Management, and Teacher Education in Computer Science
Coordinated collaboration between the Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering on the Information and Computer Engineering program
Initiated interdisciplinary cooperation between Graz University of Technology and Karl-Franzens University of Graz across computer science, psychology, social sciences, business, and law
Currently teaches Bachelor’s and Master’s courses at Modul University Vienna and Graz University of Technology