Elgar Fleisch

Biography

Since October 2004 Elgar Fleisch is Full Professor of Information Management at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics at the ETH Zurich. He is also professor of technology management and director of the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). After graduating at the Institution of Higher Technical Education in Engineering Elgar Fleisch, a born Austrian, studied business administration and computer science at the University of Vienna and wrote his PhD thesis at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the area artificial intelligence in production scheduling. 1994 Elgar Fleisch started his work at the University of St. Gallen, focusing on "Business Networking". 1996-97 he founded and serves IMG Americas Inc. in Philadelphia, USA as CEO. In 2000 he was accepted as assistant professor at the University of St. Gallen.

Research Interest

Today Elgar Fleisch conducts research in the areas of "business aspects of ubiquitous computing" and "management of industrial services". Together with Prof. Friedemann Mattern of the ETH Zurich, he leads the M-Lab and co-chairs the Auto-ID Labs, which specify the Infrastructure for the "Internet of Things".