Maria A. Wimmer, Dr. rer. techn., is a full professor of electronic government at the University of Koblenz, Germany, Department of Computer Science. Maria chairs the research group E-Government with a team of 15 doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the field. Her main research focus is on designing, implementing, and evaluating socio-technical information systems for digital government, including the use of innovative digital technologies such as AI. Key research encompasses stakeholder participation, holistic design of complex information systems, qualitative data analyses, and interoperability, as well as analysis, modeling, and simulation of public policy and decision making. She is a member of IEEE, ACM, and the German Computer Society. Since 2005, Maria has been the PI or lead partner in a number of R&D projects at the European, national, and regional levels. She was the main PI and coordinator of the “Smarter Weinberg” and NoLa projects on nomadic 5G campus nets and data-driven innovations in steep slope vineyards. In 2018, Dr. Wimmer was named “One of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government” by Apolitical (United Kingdom).
