Professor Nils Urbach
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Nils Urbach is Professor of Information Systems and Strategic IT Management at University of Bayreuth, Germany as well as Director at the FIM Research Center and the Fraunhofer Project Group Information Systems. Before, he held the position of an Assistant Professor at EBS Business School in Wiesbaden where he was head of the Strategic IT Management Competence Center at the Institute of Research on Information Systems (IRIS). He also received his doctorate from EBS. Furthermore, he holds a diploma in information systems from the University of Paderborn. In 2008, he stayed at the University of Pittsburgh as Visiting Scholar at the Katz Graduate School of Business, in 2012 at the the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) of the University of Lausanne. Complementary to his academic work, he was Managing Consultant with Horváth & Partners in Stuttgart. Earlier, he worked as Consultant with Accenture in Frankfurt. Nils Urbach has been working in the fields of strategic information management and collaborative information systems for several years. In his current research, he focuses on digital transformation, future IT workplace, and blockchain, among others. His work has been published in several academic journals such as the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE TEM), Information and Management (I&M), Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ), and Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) as well as in the proceedings of key international conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), and the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Since 2013: Professor of Information Systems and Strategic IT Management, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Since 2013: Director at FIM Research Center and Fraunhofer Project Group Business & Information Systems Engineering

2010 – 2013: Research Director at EBS Business  School, Wiesbaden, Germany

2010 – 2013: Managing Consultant with Horváth & Partners Management Consultants, Stuttgart, Germany

2012: Visiting Scholar at the École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

2006 – 2010: Research Assistant at EBS Business  School, Wiesbaden, Germany

2008: Visiting Scholar at Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

2004 – 2006: Consultant with Accenture, Kronberg im Taunus, Germany

2002 – 2004: Student Assistant at DS&OR Lab, University of Paderborn, Germany

2001 – 2001: Student Assistant at the Chair of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Paderborn, Germany

Education

2010 – 2013: Post-doctoral studies at EBS Business School, Wiesbaden, Germany

2007 – 2010: Doctoral studies at EBS Business School, Wiesbaden, Germany

2008: PhD program at Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

2000 – 2004: Diploma studies of Business Information Systems at the University of Paderborn, Germany

Contact

Prof. Dr. Nils Urbach
Professor of Information Systems and Strategic IT Management
University of Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
95447 Bayreuth, Germany

Phone +49 921 55-4712
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nils.urbach@uni-bayreuth.de
www.sim.uni-bayreuth.de
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