Marcus Birkenkrahe (born 29 December 1963 as Marcus Speh in Bad Kreuznach, Germany) is a physicist and information architect who also works as an executive coach.[2]

Marcus Birkenkrahe
Born
Speh

(1963-12-29)29 December 1963
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg
OrganizationLyon College
TitleProfessor of Computer and Data Science
AwardsBest of Web Award 1994[1]

After obtaining his Abitur in 1983, Birkenkrahe studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the University of Hamburg. In 1994, he worked as a research assistant at DESY in Zeuthen near Berlin and earned his doctorate with a dissertation on multigrid computations for lattice gauge theories using object-oriented, literate programming.[3]

As co-founder and chairman of the Globewide Network Academy (GNA), he received the awards for "Best Campus-Wide Information System"[4] and "Best Educational Site"[1] at the First World-Wide Web conference (WWW1) in Geneva, Switzerland in 1994. Between 1995 and 2001 he worked as a corporate IT executive for Accenture and Royal Dutch Shell.[5]

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA), London (1998–2008) and has been a registered expert and reviewer for knowledge management for the European Union since 1999. In 2002, he served as a visiting professor for knowledge management at the University of Auckland Business School where he won the "Best Paper 2002" award of the University of Auckland Business Review.[6][7]

From 2007 to 2023, Birkenkrahe was a professor of management information systems at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, a German University of Applied Sciences[8] and Head of E-Learning (since 2008).

In 2021 he joined the Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas as visiting professor of Data Science on a leave of absence from the Berlin School of Economics and Law. In 2022 he accepted a permanent position as Professor of Computer and Data Science at Lyon College.[9]

He serves as member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Big Data Management[10] and of the International Journal of Data Science.[11]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Best of Web Awards 1994 – Educational Service". Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  2. ^ "German Economics magazine "Brandeins", June 2006". Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Thesis_to 1996". www-library.desy.de. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Best of the Web Awards 1994, Best Campus-Wide Information System". Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  5. ^ London School Of Economics Complexity Research Group Archived 2008-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "University of Auckland Business School News". Archived from the original on 16 October 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  7. ^ "It's A Small World, Interview, IKmagazine, June 2002". Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  8. ^ Faculty profile Berlin School of Economics and Law
  9. ^ Faculty profile Lyon College
  10. ^ Int. J. of Big Data Management
  11. ^ "Int. J. of Data Science". Retrieved 11 March 2022.

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