Chair of Application Systems and E-Business









PROF. DR. MATTHIAS SCHUMANN




Learn more about my work and expertise! Here you will find an overview of my career, my research areas, and how you can get in touch with me.







SHORT BIOGRAPHY






  • Since 2023

    Advisory Board Member at the Federal Association for Credit Management (e.V.)



  • Since 1991

    Holder of the professorship for business economics with a focus on Business Information Systems at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Georg-August University of Göttingen (C4/W3), now: professor, chair of application systems and e-business; declined a call to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2005.



  • 1993 – 2010

    Director of the Institute for Information Systems at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen



  • 1990 – 1991

    Substitute of the Department of Business Information Systems II at the Department of Economic Sciences at the Georg-August-University Göttingen



  • 1987

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the IBM Scientific Center Los Angeles



  • 1986

    Dissertation (Dr. rer. pol), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg



  • 1984 – 1986

    Staff Member of DFG-Project "Expert Systems for Business Diagnoses"



  • 1983 – 1986

    Research Assistant at the Institute of Business Administration and Business Information Systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg



  • 1983

    Graduation: Dipl.-Kaufmann



  • 1978 – 1983

    Business Studies at the University of Bielefeld and University of Göttingen















SELECTED MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS




  • Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V.

  • Scientific Commission "Wirtschaftsinformatik" of the Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e. V.

  • Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V., Member in the department of Business Information Systems

  • Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e. V.

  • Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Bundesverband Credit Management e. V.




OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES




  • Member of the editorial board of the journal Wirtschaftsinformatik und Management

  • Track Chair or Reviewer of national and international Information Systems Conferences

  • Reviewer for several scientific journals












ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY SELF-ADMINISTRATION






  • Since 2006

    Director of the Data Center of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences



  • 2020 - 2024

    Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences



  • 2011 – 2019

    Member of the Senate of the Georg-August-University Göttingen



  • 2007 – 2011

    Deputy Member of the Senate of "Göttingen Research Council"



  • 2005 – 2007

    Member of the Göttingen Research Council



  • 2005 – 2012

    Member of the CIO Panel of the University of Göttingen



  • 2003 – 2012

    Member of the Supervisory Board of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH (Joint Data Center of the University of Göttingen and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)



  • 2001 – 2005

    Vice President of the University of Göttingen



  • 2000 – 2001

    Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences














Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann


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Prof. Dr. M. Schumann

Chair of Application Systems and E-Business

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5

37073 Göttingen

Room MZG 5.144

Office hours by appointment


Tel. +49 551 39-24442
mschuma1@uni-goettingen.de