Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Sir John Brian Pendry Imperial College London, UK

Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS HonFInstP, received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K., in 1969. He is a condensed matter theorist. He has been working at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, U.K., since 1981. His current research concerns the remarkable electromagnetic properties of “metamaterials” whose properties owe more to their microstructure than to the constituent materials. These made accessible completely novel materials with properties not found in nature. Together with D. Smith he developed the theory of “transformation optics” which gives a recipe for the material properties required to produce a given distribution of electromagnetic field, for example, to design a cloak of invisibility. Earlier work included a proposal for a perfect lens based on the concepts of negative refraction. He received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience "for transformative contributions to the field of nano-optics that have broken long-held beliefs about the limitations of the resolution limits of optical microscopy and imaging", together with Stefan Hell, and Thomas Ebbesen, in 2014.

Björn Ekelund Ericsson, Sweden

Björn Ekelund is responsible for long-term research in electronics, electromagnetics, and connected devices in the Ericsson Group. After starting his career as lead systems designer for Ericsson’s first digital mobile phone in the late 80’s he has held leading and executive roles in the Ericsson Group and today leads a global research and innovation organization spanning four time zones. Having numerous engagements besides Ericsson, he is also the chairman of Mobile Heights, Sweden’s largest cluster organization in Tech, and a frequent advisor to both government and industry associations. He is a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and holds M.Sc. and Lic.Eng. degrees from Lund University.

Mathias Fink Langevin Institute, ESPCI Paris, PSL University, France

Mathias Fink is the George Charpak Professor at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris), where he founded the Langevin Institute. He is a member of the French Academy of Science and of the National Academy of Technologies of France. In 2008, he was elected at the College de France on the Chair of Technological Innovation.

Mathias Fink’s area of research is concerned with the propagation of waves in complex media. His current research interests include wave control in complex media, time-reversal in physics, metamaterials, telecommunications, super-resolution, medical ultrasonic imaging, multiwave imaging. With his colleagues, he pioneered different inventions in the field of telecommunications (Time-reversal processing and Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces) and in medical imaging (ultrafast ultrasonic imaging, transient elastography, shear wave Elastography, supersonic shear imaging). 7 start-up companies with more than 400 employees have been created from his research (Echosens, Sensitive Object, Supersonic Imagine, Time Reversal Communications, CardiaWave, Austral DX, and GreenerWave).

Invited speakers and panel speakers

Emilio Calvanese Strinati CEA Leti, France

Emilio Calvanese Strinati received the master’s degree in engineering from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ in 2001, and the Ph.D degree in engineering science from Paris Telecom in 2005. He then started working with Motorola Labs, Paris, in 2002. Then in 2006, he joined CEA LETI as a Research Engineer. In 2007, he became a Ph.D. supervisor. From 2010 to 2012, he was the Co-Chair of the Wireless Working Group, GreenTouch Initiative, which deals with design of future energy efficient communication networks. From 2011 to 2016, he was the Smart Devices and Telecommunications Strategic Programs Director, then, until January 2020, he was the Smart Devices and Telecommunications Scientific and Innovation Director. Since February 2020, he has been the Nanotechnologies and Wireless for 6G (New-6G) Program Director focusing on future 6G technologies. He has published around 200 papers in journals, international conferences, and books chapters, and he has given more than 200 international invited talks, keynotes and tutorials. He is the main inventor of more than 75 patents. His current research interests are on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, semantic communications, and goal-oriented communications AI-native technologies in the contest of 6G.

Marco Di Renzo CentraleSupelec, France

Marco Di Renzo (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (currently, Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. He is currently the CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications Group with the Laboratory of Signals and Systems, CentraleSupelec-Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France, where he serves as the Coordinator of the Communications and Networks Research Area of the Laboratory of Excellence DigiCosme, as a Member of the Admission and Evaluation Committee of the Ph.D. School on Information and Communication Technologies, and as a member of the Evaluation Committee of the Graduate School in Computer Science. He is a Founding Member and the Academic Vice Chair of the Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), where he serves as the Rapporteur for the work item on communication models, channel models, and evaluation methodologies. Also, he is a Fulbright Fellow with the City University of New York, USA, and was a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow. His recent research awards include the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE COMSOC Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2022 Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by French Academy of Sciences. He is a Highly Cited Researcher. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Communications Letters. He is a Fellow of the IET, AAIA, and Vebleo and an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academia Europaea.

Cristian Della Giovampaola WaveUp, Italy

Cristian Della Giovampaola received the B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering, the M.S. degree (cum laude) in telecommunications engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetics from the University of Siena, Siena, Italy, in 2004, 2006, and 2010, respectively.,He was a Visiting Scholar at the Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, from October 2008 to September 2009, and a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the University of Siena from May 2010 to April 2011. From October 2011 to December 2014, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. From May 2015 to May 2017, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena. He is currently a Partner and a Senior Engineer with Wave Up s.r.l., Siena, whose main objective is the application of metamaterials and metasurfaces to antennas and devices for both terrestrial and space communications. His research interests include reconfigurable metasurface antennas and devices, metamaterials for both microwave and optical regimes, metatronic circuit implementation, radar systems for target detection, photoluminescence enhancement through nanoparticles, transmission line pulsers, antenna-scatterer interaction, high-frequency techniques for electromagnetic scattering and diffraction, numerical methods for solving electrically large electromagnetic problems, radio frequency identification (RFID) system design, several antenna designs, and near-to-far-field antenna measurement techniques. Dr. Della Giovampaola was an Invited Speaker at the Metamaterials 2015 Conference in Oxford, U.K., in 2015.

Christoph Studer  ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Christoph Studer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Between 2009 and 2013, he held postdoctoral positions at ETH Zurich and Rice University in Houston, TX. In 2014, he joined Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, as an Assistant Professor. From 2019 to 2020, he was an Associate Professor at Cornell University and Cornell Tech in New York City. In 2020, he joined ETH Zurich. His research interests include the design of digital integrated circuits, as well as wireless communications, digital signal processing, numerical optimization, and machine learning.

Andre Bourdoux  IMEC, Belgium

André Bourdoux (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1982. He joined the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), in 1998, where he is Scientific Director with the Advanced RF Research Group. He is a system level and signal processing expert for both the mm-wave wireless communications and radar teams. He has more than 15 years of research experience in radar systems and 15 years of research experience in broadband wireless communications. He holds several patents in these fields. He is the author and coauthor of over 180 publications in books and peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research interests include advanced architectures, signal processing and machine learning for wireless physical layer, and high-resolution 3D/4D radars.

Visa Koivunen  Aalto University, Finland

Visa Koivunen (IEEE Fellow) received the D.Sc. (EE) degree with honors from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. He was a Visiting Researcher with the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, during 1991–1995 and adjunct Full Professor during 2003–2006. Since 1999, he has been a full Professor of signal processing with Aalto University (formerly HUT), Espoo, Finland. He received the Academy Professor position in 2010 and Aalto Distinguished Professor in 2020. During his sabbatical terms in 2006 to 2007 and a visiting Faculty with Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, during 2013–2014. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research during 2006–2012. In 2010, he had many mini-sabbaticals at Princeton University. On his sabbatical term during 2022–2023, he was a Visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. He has authored or coauthored more than 470 papers in international scientific conferences and journals and holds five patents. His research interest include statistical signal processing, wireless comms, radar, multisensor systems and machine learning. He was the recipient of the IEEE SP Society best paper award for the year 2007 (with J. Eriksson) and 2017 (w Zoubir, Muma and Chakhchouk), and 2015 EURASIP Technical Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing and its applications in wireless communications, radar and related fields. He has served on Editorial board for Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE SP Letters, IEEE TR on SP, and IEEE SP Magazine. He is a EURASIP Fellow.

Slawomir Stanczak TU Berlin & Fraunhofer HHI,  Germany

Slawomir Stanczak (Senior Member) received the Dr.-Ing. habil degree. He is currently a Professor of network information theory with the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, and Head with the Wireless Communications and Networks Department, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin. He is the co-author of two books and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in the field of information theory, wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. Prof. Stanczak was the recipient of the Research Grants from German Research Foundation and the Best Paper Award from the German Society for Telecommunications in 2014. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2012 to 2015 and Chair of ITU-T Focus Group on Machine Learning for Future Networks including 5G from 2017 to 2020. He has been a Chairman of 5G Berlin Association, since 2020 and Coordinator of the projects 6G-RIC (Research & Innovation Cluster) and CampusOS, since 2021.

Andreas Mueller Bosch, Germany

Dr. Andreas Mueller is the Head of Communication and Network Technology in the Corporate Research Department of Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany and at the same time the Bosch Chief Expert for Communication Technologies for the IoT. In addition to that, he is coordinating the Industrial 5G activities of Bosch across the different business units. He also serves as General Chair of the “5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation” (5G-ACIA), which is the globally leading organization for driving and shaping Industrial 5G. Prior to joining Bosch, Andreas was a Research Staff Member at the Institute of Telecommunications of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he was contributing to the further development of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution towards LTE-Advanced. Besides, he was working as a Systems Engineer for Rohde & Schwarz, developing a novel software-defined radio based communication system for the German Armed Forces. Andreas holds a German Diploma degree as well as a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) and a M.Sc. degree in Information Technology, all from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Thomas Zemen AIT, Austria

Thomas Zemen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-(Ing.) degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering, the Ph.D. degree (Hons.), and the Venia Docendi (Habilitation) degree in mobile communications from the Vienna University of Technology, in 1998, 2004, and 2013, respectively. He is currently a Principal Scientist at the AIT—Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria, leading the Reliable Wireless Communications Group. He joined AIT, in 2014, and took on the role of thematic coordinator for physical layer security, in 2018. From 2003 to 2014, he was with FTW Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien heading the Signal and Information Processing Department, since 2008. From 1998 to 2003, he worked as a Hardware Engineer and the Project Manager of the Radio Communication Devices Department, Siemens Austria. He has authored four book chapters, 39 journal articles, more than 119 conference communications, and two patents. His research interest includes the interplay of the physical wireless radio communication channel with other parts of a communication system in time-critical applications.

Klaus Witrisal TU Graz, Austria

Klaus Witrisal (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree (cum laude) from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2002, and the Habilitation degree from the Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, in 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory, Graz University of Technology and the Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Location-aware Electronic Systems. His research interests include signal processing for wireless communications, propagation channel modeling, and positioning. Klaus Witrisal was an Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, the Co-Chair of the TWG Indoor of the COST Action IC1004, Co-Chair of the EWG Localisation and Tracking of the COST Action CA15104, leading Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation, and the TPC Co-Chair of the Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication.

Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker TU Wien, Austria

Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker received his Dr.-Ing. degree (with honors) from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, in 1998. He is currently a full professor at the Institute of Telecommunications, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria. He chaired the IEEE Signal Processing Society Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee during 2019–2020. His doctoral dissertation received the 1998 Gert-Massenberg Prize, and he has authored approximately 300 journal and conference papers and was granted several patents in the field of mobile cellular networks. His research interests include 5G/6G radio interfaces (vehicular connectivity and sensor networks) and antennas and propagation.

Mario Huemer Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Austria

Mario Huemer (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Wels, Austria, in 1970. He received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.techn. degrees from Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Linz, Austria, in 1996 and 1999, respectively.,He was an Associate Professor with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, from 2004 to 2007, and a Full Professor with the University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria, from 2007 to 2013. Since September 2013, he has been heading the Institute of Signal Processing, JKU Linz, as a Full Professor, and since 2017, he has been the Co-Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Digitally Assisted RF Transceivers for Future Mobile Communications. His research focuses on statistical and adaptive signal processing, signal-processing architectures, as well as mixed-signal processing with applications in information and communications engineering, radio-frequency transceivers for communications and radar, and sensor and biomedical signal processing. Within these fields, he has authored or coauthored more than 280 scientific articles.

Andrea M. Tonello  Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,  Austria

Andrea M. Tonello (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and telecommunications from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 1996 and 2002, respectively. From 1997 to 2002, he was at the Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies, Whippany, NJ, USA, first as a member of the Technical Staff. He was then promoted to Technical Manager and appointed as the Managing Director of the Bell Laboratories, Italy. In 2003, he joined the University of Udine, Udine, Italy, where he became an aggregate Professor, in 2005, and an Associate Professor, in 2014. He then moved at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, where he is currently a Professor of embedded communication systems. He has also a post as a part-time Associate Professor with the University of Udine, since the end of 2020. He received several awards, including the Bell Laboratories Recognition of Excellence Award (1999), the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K. (2010), the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Award from VTS (2011–2015) and from COMSOC (2018–2019), the Italian Full Professor Habilitation (2013), the Chair of Excellence from Carlos III Universidad, Madrid (2019–2020). He was also a co-recipient of ten best paper awards. He was the general chair or the TPC co-chair of several conferences. He was the Chair of the IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee (TC) on power line communications (2014–2018). He is currently the Chair of the TC on smart grid communications. He also served as the Director of Industry outreach in the board of governors of IEEE COMSOC (2019–2020). He serves/ed as an Associate Editor of several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Access, and IET Smart Grid.

Harald Haas University of Strathclyde United Kingdom

Harald Haas (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from The University of Edinburgh in 2001. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mobile Communications with the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Centre, University of Strathclyde. He also set-up and co-founded pureLiFi Ltd., which it currently serves as a Chief Scientific Officer. He has authored over 550 conference and journal papers. His main research interests are in optical wireless communications, hybrid optical wireless and RF communications, spatial modulation, and interference coordination in wireless networks. He received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance in 2016 and he received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2017. He was the recipient of the IEEE Vehicular Society James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2019. His team invented spatial modulation. He introduced LiFi to the public at an invited TED Global talk in 2011. LiFi was listed among the 50 best inventions in TIME Magazine in 2011. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017. In 2018, he received the three-year EPSRC Established Career Fellowship extension and was elected Fellow of the IET. He was a Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019 and a Fellow of FRSE and FIET.

Angel Lozano Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain

Angel Lozano received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999, worked for Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, now Nokia) between 1999 and 2008, and served as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University between 2005 and 2008. He is a professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. His papers have received several awards, including the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2016 Fred W. Ellersick Prize, and the 2016 Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. He is also the recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the period 2016–2021 and a 2017 Highly Cited Author. He is the coauthor of the textbook Foundations of MIMO Communication, published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Markku Juntti University of Oulu Finland

Markku Juntti (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Dr.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, in 1993 and 1997, respectively.,He was with the University of Oulu from 1992 to 1998, a Visiting Scholar with Rice University, Houston, Texas, from 1994 to 1995, and a Senior Specialist with Nokia Networks, Oulu, from 1999 to 2000. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Communications Engineering with the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, where he leads the Communications Signal Processing Research Group. He also serves as the Head of CWC–Radio Technologies Research Unit. His research interests include signal processing for wireless networks as well as communication and information theory. He is an author or coauthor of almost 500 papers published in international journals and conference records as well as in books Wideband CDMA for UMTS (2000–2010), Handbook of Signal Processing Systems (2013–2018), and 5G Wireless Technologies (2017). He is also an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.,Dr. Juntti has been a Secretary of the Technical Program Committee of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Communications, and the Chair or Co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee of several conferences, including 2006 and 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, the Signal Processing for Communications Symposium of IEEE Globecom 2014, the Symposium on Transceivers and Signal Processing for 5G Wireless and mm-Wave Systems of IEEE GlobalSIP 2016, the ACM NanoCom 2018, and the 2019 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems. He is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and served previously in similar role in IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He was a Secretary of IEEE Communication Society Finland Chapter from 1996 to 1997, and the Chair from 2000 to 2001. He has also served as the General Chair of 2011 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop and the 2022 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications.

Meik Kottkamp Rohde & Schwarz Munich

Meik Kottkamp has more than 25 years of technology experience in the cellular industry. He is Principal Technology Manager Wireless for Rohde & Schwarz in Munich and is responsible for strategic marketing and product portfolio development covering existing and new 3GPP technologies. His focus is 5G NR, specifically for industrial applications, and 6G research. Meik joined Rohde & Schwarz in August 2007 after working for 11 years for Siemens and NSN. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree of electrical and microwave engineering from the Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.

Uli Meyer Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Austria

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uli Meyer is head of the Department of Sociology with a focus on Innovation and Digitalization (SID) at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz. He studied sociology, economics, and computer science at the Technical University Berlin, with a dissertation (sociology) on innovation paths. Uli Meyer was a research assistant at the Berlin Social Science Research Center (WZB) as well as the Department for Sociology at TU Berlin, where he also pursued his post-doc. He was a visiting fellow at Stanford University, USA, as well as the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been a research group leader, head of the Post-Doc Lab Reorganizing Industries at the Technical University of Munich and acting professor for the sociology of digital work at Ruhr Universität Bochum. His research addresses the interplay between society and technology. Current research topics are the future of work, narratives of socio-technical futures, and the use of Artificial Intelligence.

Thomas Gegenhuber Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Austria

Thomas Gegenhuber, Professor for Managing Socio-Technical Transitions at JKU Linz, Associated researcher at the Institute of Organization Science, Visiting researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Thomas Gegenhuber is professor for Managing Socio-Technical Transitions at JKU Linz, associated researcher at the Institute of Organization Science, and visiting researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Thomas Gegenhuber holds a doctoral degree in business administration from Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz. Thomas’ work appears in international journals such as Human Relations, Long Range Planning, Business & Society, Government Information Quarterly and Information & Organization.

Andreas Springer Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Austria

Andreas Springer received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1991, the Dr. techn. (Ph.D) degree and the Univ.-Doz. (Habilitation) degree both from the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. Since 2005 he is a full professor Institute for Communications Engineering and RF-Systems (formerly Institute for Communications and Information Engineering) at JKU. In the Austrian K2 Center for Symbiotic Mechatronics he serves as a Research Area Coordinator. Since 2017 he is co-leader of the “Christian Doppler Lab for Digitally Assisted RF Transceivers for Future Mobile Communications”. His current research interests are focused on wireless communication systems, architectures and algorithms for multi-band/multi-mode transceivers, wireless sensor networks, and recently molecular communications. In these fields, he has published more than 300 papers in journals and at international conferences, one book, and two book chapters. In 2006 he was co-recipient of the science prize of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Bernhard Bergmair Sustainability Consultant

Bernhard Bergmair received his ScD in Engineering Sciences from Vienna University of Technology for his research on magnetoelastic resonance sensors in 2013 – after graduating in physics in 2008. He is currently sustainability consultant with a multinational company in the field of digital automation and energy management. From 2013 to 2021 he was senior researcher at Linz Center of Mechatronics, initiating and organising interdisciplinary open foresight projects with multiple corporations on the impact of emerging digital technologies on society and business – in close cooperation with the Institute of Strategic Management at Johannes Kepler University Linz.