About HD

Since October 2009, I have been a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Information and Process Management IPM, School of Management, at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (formerly known as FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences), Campus St. Gallen, Switzerland. 

My main research interests concern the changing patterns of communication and interaction through the means of digitalization in societies, markets, enterprises and other organizations, as well as at the level of individuals. This includes areas such as electronic markets and all forms of electronic commerce and digital business, digital democracy and participation, and smart cities and regions. Interdisciplinary issues are also of particular interest to me.

See my personal Blog (HD's Two Cents - Themen rund um die Informationsgesellschaft (German only)) for further discussions and statements (last updated 2020).

I serve as Co-Editor-in-Chief for the prestigious international academic journal 'Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business' (SSCI listed) (as of Jan. 2015). Prior to that, I served for many years as an associate editor and a senior editor.

Before, I was with the Swiss Institute for Information Research - SII at the University of Applied Sciences – HTW Chur, in Chur, Switzerland, as Professor and head of the institute.

From  2004 – 2006 I was a Professor at the Institute for Information Systems (Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Muenster, Germany. In the winter semester 2004/05 I was a professor at the Institute for Management at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.

Before, I was working as a Senior Research Associate and Senior Lecturer at the =mcminstitute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland where I was responsible for the research group Competence Center Electronic Markets CCEM and other CCEM-related projects at the =mcminstitute.

During the summer term 2001, I hold an interim chair for Information Management (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

In 1999 I joined BRIE - Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, University of California, Berkeley, as a Visiting Scholar for three months.

In 1995 I received my Doctoral Degree in Information Systems (Dr. oec. HSG) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. 

I studied Business Administration at RWTH Aachen and the School for Business and Economics of theUniversity Erlangen-Nürnberg with majors in Information Systems, Banking, and Economics.

Some of my personal interests are traveling, photography, and sports like skiing and hiking.

All the best, 

Hans-Dieter Zimmermann

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