Prof. Dr. Elgar Fleisch
Prof. Dr. Elgar Fleisch
Full Professor at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics
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Research area
Internet of Things, Digital Healthcare, Digital Energy
Elgar Fleisch is a Professor of Information and Technology Management at ETH Zurich and University of St.Gallen (HSG) and Director at the Institute of Technology Management (ITEM-HSG).
His research interests focus on the current fusion of the physical and the digital world into an Internet of Things. With his transdisciplinary team, he aims to understand this fusion in the dimensions of technology, applications, business models and social implications and, based on this, to develop new technologies and applications for the benefit of the economy and society.
Elgar Fleisch has organized his research into several labs, each spanning both universities, combining technology and economics as well as science and practice. His current largest lab, the Center for Digital Health Interventions, investigates how digital technologies are changing our healthcare system. All research projects are carried out in close cooperation with industry. Elgar Fleisch and his team have published their results in over 600 scientific papers.
Elgar Fleisch is co-founder of several spin-off and start-up companies and member of various academic steering committees. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Mobiliar Versicherungen in Bern, of of Robert Bosch GesmbH in Stuttgart and of UNIQA Insurance Group AG in Vienna. He is also a shareholder of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG.
Born in 1968 in Bregenz, Austria, Elgar Fleisch graduated from the HTL Bregenz in mechanical engineering, then studied business information technology in Vienna and completed his doctoral thesis in the field of artificial intelligence in 1993. After his habilitation on the subject of network enterprises and various intermediate stations, he was appointed as full professor to HSG in 2002 and additionally to ETH in 2004. Elgar Fleisch spent his sabbaticals at MIT and Dartmouth College, both in the USA.
Elgar Fleisch has lived in St. Gallen since 1999, is married and has four children together with his wife Carmen. Like his whole family, he has dual Swiss-Austrian citizenship.