MC 4.0 Experts

University of Padova – Vicenza site

Professor of Operations Management and General Management. Expert in management of product variety and product customization. Considers mass customization strategies, product configurators, product modularity, individual competences for efficient customization, systems redesign to efficiently and effectively manage variety and customization.

University of Padova – Vicenza site

Assistant professor at the Department of Management and Engineering. He teaches Organization Design, Human Resource Management, Cost Accounting, and Product Configurator Design. Specialised in variety and customization management, digitalization for efficient customization, product configuration systems, organization design and individual competencies for efficient customization.

University of Padova – Vicenza site

Adjunct professor at Department of Information Engineering. Expert in knowledge transfer to industry, specifically, in the fields of high product variety contexts/mass customization with emphasis on Industry 4.0. Main focus of his research is the application of the mass customization in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

University of Padova – Vicenza site

Researcher in Operations Management. Expert in the field of mass customization with focus on product configurators and use of advanced technologies (i.e. Industry 4.0). Has 10 years of professional experience in manufacturing. Experience in maintaining the Quality Assurance / Quality Control program and standard operating procedures.

Technology design services

Mechanics engineer expert in the maximum standardization of components and subsystems to obtain a robust product project that allows to offers customized products in a configurable way. Has 20 years of experience as designer and head of R&D department in national and international companies in North East of Italy.

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Professor of Building Physics and Building Energy Systems. Expert in methods to analyse & optimize the energy and non-energy performance of buildings. Focuses the assessment and modelling of the indoor environmental quality. Participates in the definition of Italian standards on building energy performance. Is designing new methods to efficiently personalize climate systems.

University of Klagenfurt

Associate Professor in the research field of Human Computer Interaction. More than twenty years of experience in the field of Human Computer Interaction. The main focus of current research is the interaction with intelligent environments, specifically smart homes, recommendation of components, functions and services and configuration of customized smart homes, from the supplier’s as well as the consumer’s perspective.

Selectionarts - Klagenfurt

Günter Brandner has more than 20 years of experience in national and international management consulting and was in his last position managing director of the management consulting division at a BIG 4 consultancy in Vienna. He is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Selectionarts and has extensive experience in the areas of strategy, performance, organisation and IT.

University of Technology - Graz

Full professor of Software Technology at the Graz University of Technology (Austria). Core research fields include configuration systems, recommender systems, model-based diagnosis, software requirements engineering, different aspects of human decision making, and knowledge acquisition methods. He has been organizing international conferences and workshops such as the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, the International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, and the International Workshop on Configuration. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Applied Intelligence and the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.

Silicon Alps - Villach

Technology sociologist and innovation researcher. Chair of the technological cluster focus groups and the matters of technology cooperation. Around 20 years of professional experience in technology and sustainability research at University of Bucharest, Darmstadt University of Technology, IFZ – Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work, and Culture, Graz and Technical Faculty of the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt

Energieforum Kärnten - Klagenfurt

Chair of Energieforum Kärnten, a platform for sustainability which accompanies many companies on their way to sustainability, awards them with the EFK Certificate for Sustainability and offers many different services in the network.

Energieforum Kärnten - Klagenfurt

Project Manager and responsible for Organisation and Marketing and administrator of Energieforum Kärnten. He has organized various projects in the realms of sustainability, economy, and ecology. In addition, he hosts the "Mein-Fair Sprechen" podcast of Energieforum Kärnten, where regional and sustainable companies can present their services or products to all relevant stakeholders.

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

is Assistant Professor (RTD) at the Research Group in Building Physics of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Expert in experimental and numerical characterization of the thermal behavior of building materials and building envelope components, analysis and improvement of the indoor environmental quality, and urban scale simulation.

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Assistant Professor of Building Physics and Building Energy Systems. Expert in materials and methods for thermal and acoustic insulation. Has skills on materials layers customization for specific industrial applications, recycling and reusing possible end-of-life products or by-products.

University of Klagenfurt

Researcher with a focus is on recommendation systems, recommendation-supported e-learning, human decision-making and intelligent and highly personalised software systems. He has many years of experience in software projects, both in development and management aspects (including agile software development processes) as well as in national and international project acquisition and coordination.