Research Seminar

Modul University Vienna invites international scholars to share their expertise and present latest research!

Presentations and subsequent discussions last for about 30 minutes each. All sessions are live-streamed, free to attend, and open to the public. No registration needed!

Interested in a) becoming a presenter, or b) receiving invitations by e-mail one week ahead? Please contact christian.weismayersymbolmodul.acpunktat


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Reinhard Merkel

Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Title: “Humans, Cyborgs and Humanoid Robots - Challenges for Autonomy and Responsibility"
Date: May 27th 2024 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 2.07
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Eszter Marczellné Szilágyi
Budapest Metropolitan University, Budapest, Hungary

“Knowledge Management and Emotional Intelligence"

Date: May 28th 2024 13:00-14:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 2.07

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Miroslav Rončák
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

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Date: May tba 2024 tba (Vienna local time)

Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. tba

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Oliver Fritz
Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Vienna, Austria

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Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. tba

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Nixon Lyndon
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

“How to Use Computer Vision and Compositional Vectors to Measure and Represent Destination Image on Instagram"

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Location: Modul University Vienna, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. tba

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Past Presentations

David B. Smith
City University of New York (CUNY), New York, United States of America

“Navigating Combinative Reality: Devising and Testing a Universal Theoretical Framework"

Date: March 12th 2024 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Richard A. Werner
Linacre College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

“Credit Creation and Allocation: A Research Program in Evidence-Based Economics"

Date: March 22th 2024 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Ferenc Kiss
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary

“The Role of Knowledge in Accelerating the Development of Capital"

Date: December 5th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)


Levente Szabados
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, Germany; Neuron Solutions

“Decomposing AI's Evolution: A Wave-Based Approach to Predicting Labour Market Impacts"

Date: November 28th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Viktor Lázár
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary

“Robotics Nations"

Date: November 17th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Zoltán Cséfalvay
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary

“The Rise of the Startup Cities in Europe - What Factors are Influencing the Startup City Landscape in Europe?"

Date: November 10th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Enikő Szakos
Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary

“Map and Analysis of the Global, European, and V4 Edtech Scenes’ Present and Future"

Date: November 7th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Dénes Dávid Lóránt
John Neumann University, Kecskemét, Hungary

“Inbound and Outbound Tourism in China: New Perspectives"

Date: September 18th 2023 11:00-12:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Frommholz Ingo, Silva Kanishka
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

“Large Language Models and Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Humanities - A Match Made in Quantum Heaven"

Date: September 7th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Bródka Piotr
Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

“Spreading Processes in Multilayer Networks - From Diseases to Influence"

Date: July 7th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Hausknost Daniel
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

“Climate Crisis and the Reactive State: Exploring the Glass Ceiling of Transformations"

Date: May 8th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Fath Brian D.
Towson University, Maryland, United States

“Human Carrying Capacity Constraints and Lessons from Systems Ecology"

Date: March 20th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Aigner Ernest
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

“APCC Special Report: Structures for Climate Friendly Living - Summary for Policy Makers"

Date: March 14th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Liu Yi-Yu
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

“The Impact of Financial Viability on Entrepreneurial Intention"

Date: January 24th 2023 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Katarzyna Sanak-Kosmowska
Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland

“Corporate Decisions at the Time of War: Consumer Attitudes Towards International Brands Operating in Russia after 24.02.2022"

Date: December 20th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Diana Lynne Stuart
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA

“Articulating System Change to Address the Climate Crisis"

Date: November 22nd 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Miroslav Rončák
Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

“Quo Vadis", Prague...?

Date: November 16th 2022 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)


Anja Hergesell
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

“University clubs' contribution to students' skill development"

Date: November 14th 2022 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)


Brian Craig Petersen
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA

“Climate change, myths, and the search for real solutions"

Date: November 8th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Daniel Dan
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

“Words that trigger responses in negative hotel feedback"

Date: September 27th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Jan Blažek
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

“The Role of Community Economies and Collaborative Housing Projects in a Shared, Just and Resilient City"

Date: May 10th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Chekembayeva Gaukhar
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“The Study of Museum Virtual Tours"

Date: April 26th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Tavernaro-Haidarian Leyla
University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa

“A Human-Centered Sustainable Development Approach"

Date: April 19th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Durmusoglu Serdar S.
Modul University Vienna Campus in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

“Serial Innovators in Collectivistic Organizations: Conceptual Development, Propositions, and Antecedents"

Date: April 5th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Seewald Gabriele
Taiwan International Institute for Water Education at National Taiwan University
Spiral Seeds Consulting & Projects 

“Eco-Social Sustainability through Regenerative Development"

Date: March 2nd 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Dürrschmid Klaus
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria

“Novel Approaches in Sensory and Consumer Science"

Date: January 20th 2022 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Ponocny Ivo1, Zins Andreas2
1Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Curtin University, Miri, Malaysia

“Tourism and Wellbeing"

Date: December 2nd 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Plzakova Lucie
Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

“Local Tourism Taxes in the Context of Collaborative Economy"

Date: November 25th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Helic Denis
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Graz, Austria

“Applied Data Science for Economic and Social Sciences"

Date: November 11th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Milone Francesco Luigi
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

“Airbnb, Gig Entrepreneurs and Middlemen: Seizing Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Platform Era Comparing Different Host Types"

Date: October 21st 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Wagner Udo
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Two Recent Studies on Sensory Marketing: Acoustic Stimuli Coupled with Out-of-Home Advertising and Consumer Intuitions when Choosing Vegan Groceries"

Date: October 14th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Ferrari Sebastian
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Overtourism: A Portrait"

Date: October 7th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)


Nixon Lyndon
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Measuring Touristic Destination Image from Instagram Content Using a Deep Learning Classifier"

Date: September 30th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (Vienna local time)

Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Overtourism - Reading Between the Lines"

Date: June 22nd 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


Ulrich Gunter
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Improving Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Quarterly Hotel Room Demand Forecasts for Vienna across Hotel Classes - Evidence from Single Forecast Models and from Forecast Combination Techniques"

Date: June 8th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


Daniel Dan
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Supporting Content Marketing with Natural Language Generation”

Date: May 31st 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (CEST)


Marion Garausa, Elisabeth Steinerb, Christian Weismayera
aModul University, Vienna, Austria; bFH Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

“Signaling Food Quality through Sensory Attributes"

Date: May 10th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


­­Nika Balomenou
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

“Photographs in Tourism Research: Prejudice, Power, Performance and Participant-Generated Images"

Date: April 26th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


­­David Leonard
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Opening a Dialogue with Faculty: How Can We Teach about Business Growth Without Implicitly Promoting Unsustainable Economic Growth”

Date: April 12th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


­­David Osho
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“A Match Made in Darkness: Examining How Social Communication Platforms have a Psychological Hold on Tourists of Dark Tourism"

Date: April 9th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CEST)


­­Hrvoje Daniel Carić
Institute for Tourism, Zagreb, Croatia

“Dubrovnik UNESCO World Heritage Site Challenges”

Date: March 1st 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CET)


­­Bogdan Pirvu
Novomatic AG, Austria

“An Introduction to Tensor Network Machine Learning”

Date: March 9th 2021 2:00-3:00 p.m. (CET)


­­Maximilian Benner
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

“Tourism in Israel: Regional Evolution in the Context of EU Alignment”

Date: March 15th 2021 1:00-2:00 p.m. (CET)

Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Overtourism: Bringing Order to Chaos”

Date: October 6th 2020 2:00 p.m.


Serdar S. Durmusoglu
Modul University Vienna Campus in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

"The Collaboratory: Three Cases in a Social Innovation Hub in Struggling Rust Belt of America"

Date: November 17th 2020 2:00 p.m.


Arno Scharl
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Detecting Emerging Stories and Emotions in the Public Debate - Web Intelligence Applications in Health, Sustainability, and Politics”

Date: November 24th 2020 2:00 p.m.


Sebastian Ferrari
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Overtourism Measurement"

Date: December 15th 2020 2:00 p.m.


Sabine Sedlacek, Christian Weismayer, Bozana Zekan, Ulrich Gunter
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“Carrying Capacity Methodology for Tourism"

Date: January 12th 2021 2:00 p.m.


Mario Diaz Munoz
Modul University, Vienna, Austria

“i-CONN: Connectivity, Complex Systems and Critical Flows of Energy Resources”

Date: January 19th 2021 2:00 p.m.


Petr Ocelík, Lukáš Lehotský
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

“Climate Change and Coal in Media Coverage: A Missing Link"

Date: January 26th 2021 2:00 p.m.

Klaus Renoldner
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“The Triple Benefit Principle and Carbon Pricing in Comparison - Perspectives and Limits"

March 3rd 2020 1 p.m.

Ben Wooliscroft 
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

“Adventures in Macromarketing”

October 22nd 2019 12:30 p.m.


Alexandra Ganglmair-Wooliscroft
University of Otago, New Zealand

“Which consumption counts – the complexity of quality-of-life”

October 29th 2019 12:30 p.m.


Ivana Volic 
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“The role of values in cultural policy”

November 5th 2019 12:30 p.m.


Klaus Grabler
MANOVA GmbH, Austria

“Touristic business intelligence challenges from a practical point of view”

November 19th 2019 12:30 p.m.


Sandra Guinand
University of Vienna, Austria

“The city as experience. Challenges of urban production.”

December 3rd 2019 12:30 p.m.

Hannes Antonschmidt
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“Assessing non-linear data structures with machine learning approaches"

March 5th 2019 1:00 p.m.


Ola Mostafa
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“Integration of refugees at Austrian universities”

April 25th 2019 1:00 p.m.


Martin Černý
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

“Modelling distributional impacts of the transition to renewable energy with expert elicitation”

April 30th 2019 1:00 p.m.


Marcelo Gonҫalves Oliveira
Universidade Europeia, Lisbon, Portugal

“Discursive gaps in cultural tourism”

May 7th 2019 1:00 p.m.


Ulrich Gunter, Irem Önder
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“An exploratory analysis of geotagged photos from Instagram for residents of and visitors to Vienna”

May 21st 2019 1:00 p.m.

Marion Garaus
Modul University Vienna, Austria

"Shoppers' responses to digitalization at the point-of-sale”

November 27th 2018 1 p.m.


Christian Kimmich1, Martin Cerny1, Christian Kerschner2
1Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republik; 2Modul University Vienna, Austria

“MEDEAS: Towards a zero-carbon economy for Europe”

December 4th 2018 1 p.m.


Daniel Dan
Modul University Vienna, Austria

“Text mining and analysis for marketing”

December 6th 2018 1 p.m.