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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Ferenc Kiss
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary
Title: “The Role of Knowledge in Accelerating the Development of Capital"
Date: December 5th 2023 11:00-12:00 a.m. (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 3.13
Online: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
Nixon Lyndon
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
“How to Use Computer Vision and Compositional Vectors to Measure and Represent Destination Image on Instagram"
Date: December 12th 2023 10:00-11:00 (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 3.13
Online: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
Gabriel Trettel Silva
Modul University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
“Coloniality and Climate Change Mitigation: The Crossroads of a Globally Just Energy Transition"
Date: January 11th 2024 11:00-12:00 (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 2.07
Online: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
Oliver Fritz
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna, Austria
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Date: January 15th 2024 13:00-14:00 (Vienna local time)
Location: Modul University, Austria, 1190 Vienna, Am Kahlenberg 1, Room no. 2.07
Online: Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
Past Presentations
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.