Michael A. Herzog is a tenured full professor of Information Systems Engineering. He serves as the Vice Dean for Research in the Department of Economics and is a member of the Academic Senate at Magdeburg-Stendal University (h2). As Guest Faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, and as an Associate Graduate Faculty at Ontario Tech University, he supports international Ph.D. and graduate programs. His research and teaching focus on educational technologies, human-computer interaction, self-adaptive information systems, and IT-supported sustainability.

Over 15 years earlier in his career, he founded and led three software and media technology companies in Germany and Italy. In academia, he established and heads the interdisciplinary SPIRIT research group (2012), the executive master’s program in Digital Business Management (2016), and the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (2024), a collaborative project with the Engineering Faculty at the German-Jordanian University in Amman. As a professor at h2 University, he secured research and development grant shares totaling € 7 million over 15 years.

Michael holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems and an M.Sc. in Computer Science, both from the Technical University of Berlin. He has published 16 books and over 90 peer-reviewed research papers. Michael’s research has earned several awards, including the Multimedia Award from the University of Potsdam in 2004, the h2 University Research Award in 2018, and the h2 Best Research Team Award in 2020. His CrossTeaching project received the 2018 National Ars Docendi Award in Austria.