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Prof. DDr. Arno Scharl
Vice President, Head of Department
MODUL University Vienna
Department of New Media Technology
(p) +43 1 320 3555-500
(f) +43 1 320 3555-903
(e) arno.scharl[AT]modul.ac.at
(w) www.modul.ac.at/nmt
Office Hours
By appointment (contact via email)
Roomnumber
301
Courses at MU Vienna
0604 E-Business
MA1-0725 Master Thesis Tutorial NMT
Short Bio
Arno Scharl heads the Department of New Media Technology at MODUL University Vienna. Prior to this appointment, he held professorships at Graz University of Technology and the University of Western Australia, and the position of a Key Researcher at the Austrian Competence Center for Knowledge Management. Mr. Scharl completed his doctoral research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and also holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Vienna, Department of Sports Physiology. Returning from fellowships at the University of California at Berkeley and Curtin University of Technology (funded by an Erwin Schrödinger Research Grant of the Austrian Science Fund), he submitted his habilitation on “Evolutionary Web Development”, for which he was awarded the venia docendi and the Senator Wilhelm Wilfling Award in 2000. Mr. Scharl edited two books in Springer’s Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series on "The Geospatial Web" and “Environmental Online Communication”, founded the ECOresearch Network and served as co-chair of the 20th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection. His current research interests focus on text mining, integrating semantic and geospatial Web technology, media monitoring, virtual communities and computer-mediated collaboration.
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