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Prof. Dr. Tim A. Majchrzak

Scientific Director

Portrait von Tim Majchrzak

Along with Scientific Director, Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders, and Executive Director, Michael Paul, Prof. Dr. Tim A. Majchrzak forms the executive board of CAIS.

Tim Majchrzak studied Business and Information Systems Engineering and earned his doctorate in economics and habilitation in business and information systems at the University of Münster. After two years as a deputy professor at the University of Cologne, he worked for over ten years at the University of Agder (UiA) in Norway, most recently five years as professor in Information Systems.

Curriculum vitae:

  • Since 04/2025: Full Professorship (W3) for Computing, Technology and Society at Ruhr University Bochum
  • 03/2015 – 03/2025: Initially Førsteamanuensis (Associate Professor) and then Professor in Information Systems at the University of Agder (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway
  • 07/2015: Habilitation: Award of the Venia Legendi in Business Informatics by the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the University of Münster (Topic: Software Engineering for Mobile Devices)
  • 04/2014 to 03/2015: Deputy Professorship for Information Systems and Operations Research, at the University of Cologne
  •  04/2013 to 03/2014: Deputy Professorship for Information Systems, specifically Integrated Information Systems, at the University of Cologne
  • 2011 – 2015: Temporary Academic Council at the University of Münster
  • 2007 – 2011: Awarded the title of Dr. rer. pol. by the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the University of Münster (Topic: Technical and Organizational Aspects of Software Testing)
  • Studied Business and Information System Engineering at University of Münster


Tim Majchrzak is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society, as well as a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV).

  • Yannibelli, V., Hirsch, M., Toloza, J., Majchrzak, T. A., Grønli, T.-M., Zunino, A. & Mateos, C. (2024). BAGESS: A software module based on evolutionary algorithms to schedule load-balancing scenarios over smartphone-based clusters at the Edge. IEEE Access, 12, 145893–145919. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3469641
  • Fromm, J., Eyilmez, K., Baßfeld, M., Majchrzak, T. A. & Stieglitz, S. (2023). Social Media Data in an Augmented Reality System for Situation Awareness Support in Emergency Control Rooms. Information Systems Frontiers, 25, 303–326. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-020-10101-9
  • Majchrzak, T. A. (2022). Fehlinformationen zu COVID-19 in den sozialen Medien. In F. Schmidt, S. Jaki & T. Mandl (Hrsg.), Wissen um Corona: Wissenschaftskommunikation, Informationsverhalten, Diskurs (pp. 251–256). University press Hildesheim. https://doi.org/10.18442/216
  • Radianti, J., Majchrzak, T. A., Fromm, J. & Wohlgenannt, I. (2020). A systematic review of immersive virtual reality applications for higher education: Design elements, lessons learned, and research agenda. Computers & Education, 147. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103778
  • Marana, P., Eden, C., Eriksson, H., Grimes, C., Hernantes, J., Howick, S., Labaka, L., Latinos, V., Lindner, R., Majchrzak, T. A., Pyrko, I., Radianti, J., Rankin, A., Sakurai, M., Sarriegi, J. & Serrano, N. (2019). Towards a resilience management guideline – Cities as a starting point for societal resilience. Sustainable Cities and Society, 48. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101531
  • Majchrzak, T. A. (2022, January 16). Towards Routinely Using Virtual Reality in Higher Education [Interview]. The Versatilist, Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN).
  • Majchrzak, T. A. (2021, July 2). Verbreitung von COVID-19-Fehlinformationen in sozialen Medien [Presentation]. InFoCoP 2021, Public Foundation University of Hildesheim.
  • Majchrzak, T. A. (2021, May 12). Mutual Learning Encounter on Privacy and Data Protection in IoT Application Use Cases [Panel]. H2020 Projekt Panelfit.
  • Majchrzak, T. A. (2021, February 9). Understanding COVID-19 Misinformation [Presentation]. The COVID-19 Infodemic: Combatting Misinformation During Global Crises, AAAS Annual Meeting 2021.
  • Majchrzak, T. A. (2021, February 4). Virtual OECD International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Work, Innovation, Productivity and Skills (AI-WIPS) [Part of the expert audience].

Prof. Dr. Tim A. Majchrzak

Scientific Director

E-Mail:   tim.majchrzak@cais-research.de

Bereich: Board of Directors, Research Program Transformation of Digital Democratic Discourses, Scientific Management
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