The School is very pleased to announce a number of new academic appointments following recent recruitment rounds.

Dr Andreas Drechsler has been appointed as a Senior Lecturer and recently commenced at SIM. He previously held a post-doctoral research position at the Institute of Computer Science & Business Information Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, where he also obtained his doctoral degree.

Dr Drechsler's research focuses on enhancing IS/IT management and IT project management practices in organisations and improving the conceptual and methodological design science research foundations in the Information Systems discipline. His industry experience consists of several years in software development and software project management.

He has published in the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application and Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, and is the author of over 20 research publications.

Dr Markus Luczak-Roesch has been appointed as a Senior Lecturer and will join us in July. He obtained his doctoral degree at Freie Universität Berlin for his work on usage analysis to support the Linked Data lifecycle. He also held a lecturer position at Freie Universität Berlin from 2010 to 2013.

Dr Luczak-Roesch comes to New Zealand following his term as a Senior Research Fellow at the Web and Internet Science Group at the University of Southampton, Electronics and Computer Science, working on the prestigious EPSRC-funded project SOCIAM – The Theory and Practice of Social Machines.

SOCIAM, a project co-led by Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, researches into pioneering methods of supporting purposeful human interaction on the World Wide Web, of the kind exemplified by phenomena such as Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo.

Dr Luczak-Roesch's research is generally focused on macro- and micro-scale information architectures. This encompasses information systems, their users, and the data, which is either managed for any particular application purpose or results from various forms of interactions. Dr Luczak-Roesch was invited to participate in the Data-Pop Alliance series "Experts Speak: Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience" to discuss human computation and data deliberation and a human right to control personal data.

At the core of this work stands the investigation of the natural flow of information in Web-based information systems that results from coincidental information sharing activities of individuals.

Dr Kristijan Mirkovski will join SIM in October as a Lecturer, having been a research fellow in the Information Systems Department at the City University of Hong Kong from where he also obtained his doctoral degree in Information Systems.

His research interests include ICT adoption and use, alternative genres for conveying scholarly knowledge, social media, social commerce, social network analysis, entrepreneurial innovation, and information security.

Research by Dr Mirkovski has been accepted by peer reviewed journals such as Supply Chain Management: An International Journal and Electronic Commerce Research, and he has presented his research at various national and international conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems, the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, the Americas Conference on Information Systems, the Pacific Asia Conference of Information Systems, and the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

His broad teaching interests include management information systems, knowledge management, e-commerce, business process management, project management, financial information systems, and business intelligence.

Dr Cathal Doyle will join SIM in August as a Lecturer.  Cathal is a researcher/lecturer in Business Information Systems and has spent the last six years studying and teaching at University College Cork, Ireland.  While there he completed his PhD titled “Social Media Enabled Collaborative Learning Environments: A Design Science Research Approach”, focusing on building an evaluation framework for learning environments enabled by social media platforms. From this he has published articles on social media, social media and learning, and design science research, which are also his current research interests. Further, he has taught a number of courses including web development, systems analysis and design, and IT and social media in learning & development to different levels including undergraduate, back-to-education, and executive audiences.

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