Editorial History Page
This section lists past contributors.
- Dr. Adrijana Car is a professor of Geoinformatics in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at CUAS. Her professional interests focus on conceptualization and formalization of space and time, project-based learning and curriculum design in Geographic Information Science & Technology, and quality assurance aspects in higher education. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal GI_Forum, Editorial Board member of AGIT Journal, program committee chair for the GI_Salzburg conference, and an elected member of the Commission for Geographic Information Science at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
· Apl. Prof. Dr. Gregory Egger is a professor of Landscape Ecology at the Karlsruher Institute of Technology, Germany, as well as a lecturer at BOKU, Vienna. Additionally, he is managing director of a private consulting company in Klagenfurt. His main research focus is on vegetation, landscape ecology, and modelling of riparian ecosystems. He is an experienced author of more than 50 published articles in international journals and numerous book chapters.
· Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wilfried Elmenreich works as a professor at the Department of Networked and Embedded Systems at the University of Klagenfurt. He has more than 200 international articles on embedded systems, communication networks, energy informatics, and swarm systems. He was guest editor for two Special Issues of the Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, and was associate editor in the Journal of Applied Sciences of Acta Polytechnica Hungaria.
· FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Peter Granig is Rector at CUAS and professor for Innovation Management and Business Administration. He has 20 years of professional experience in business development and innovation management in commercial and industrial enterprises. Based on his studies in Austria and the USA, his main research interests are innovation and innovation management.
· Dr. Hanns Kirchmeir is an ecologist and director of E.C.O. Institute for Ecology, Klagenfurt. His research focus is on forest ecology and protected area management, impact assessment, and using terrestrial and airborne LiDAR technologies. He has published 25 scientific articles and provided reviews for Journal of Environmental Management, Journal for Nature Conservation, and eco.mont.
· Dr. Christian Komposch is an entomologist and the director of Ökoteam Graz. His work and research focus on arachnology, fish ecology, management of Natura 2000 sites, management of invasive species, and insect extinction. In this field he holds lectures at Karl-Franzens-University Graz and at CUAS. He is a member of the International Society of Arachnology and the NWV. He has published more than 150 scientific articles, serves as a reviewer for various international scientific journals, and is a member of the scientific advisory boards of Arachnologische Mitteilungen and Hercynia.
· FH-Prof. Dr. Gernot Paulus is professor of Geoinformatics at CUAS and holds a current position as an adjunct faculty member at San Diego State University, USA. He is the scientific director of the SIENA (Spatial Informatics for ENvironmental Applications) research group. He is a board member of the Austrian Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (AGEO) and has served since 2000 as a reviewer and member of the programme committee of the International Symposium for Applied Geographic Information Technology AGIT.
· Dr. Franz Rauch is a professor at the Institute of Instructional and School Development at the University of Klagenfurt. He has published over 300 articles in the areas of education for sustainable development, networks in education, school development, science education, professional development in education, and action research. He an editor of Educational Action Research Journal and serves on editorial boards of other journals including The Journal of Environmental Education and The Journal of Work-Applied Management.
· Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kirsten von Elverfeldt is a geography professor working at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, Germany. She has published over 23 articles and book chapters, and four monographs in the fields of system theories, self-organizing natural systems, global environmental change and climate change, sustainability and natural hazards, and risks analysis. She is an executive editor of the journal Geoscience Communication, international editor of the Norwegian Journal of Geography, as well as reviewer of various highly ranked journals (e.g., Journal of Flood Risk Management, International Journal of Geo-Information, Geoscience Communication).
