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Ronald Maier
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Topic
Digitalisation for Researchers at the University of Vienna
About the speaker
Ronald Maier has been Vice-Rector for Digitalisation and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Vienna since 1 October 2019. He is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Innsbruck.
Ulf Busch
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Topic
The Role of the ZID in Supporting IT for Researchers
About the speaker
Ulf Busch has been CIO of the University of Vienna since 2010. He is the head of Zentraler Informatikdienst.
Michaela Bociurko
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Moderation
About the speaker
Michaela Bociurko is head of IT Communications and Marketing at Zentraler Informatikdienst. The staff unit bridges the gap between technical experts and users by providing user guides and documentation, organising information events and advising on product design and usability.
Sara Curtis
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Moderation
About the speaker
Sara Curtis is an employee of IT Communications and Marketing at Zentraler Informatikdienst.
Theresa Novak
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Moderation
About the speaker
Theresa Novak is an employee of IT Communications and Marketing at Zentraler Informatikdienst.
19.11.2025
Fabian Jusufi
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Topic
Supporting Research in Azure: An Insight into the Funding Process
About the speaker
Fabian Jusufi is a staff member of Coordination Digital Transformation at Zentraler Informatikdienst. He is cloud administrator of the public cloud platforms Microsoft Azure and AWS at the University of Vienna.
Lilian Nowak
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Topic
Project-SciTextMatch: AI-Assisted Identification of Cross-University Collaboration Potential Aligned with Grant Calls
About the speaker
Lilian Nowak supports Vienna University Library’s Bibliometrics & Publication Strategies team, developing tools such as SciTextMatch (which identifies cross-university collaboration potential) and interactive visualization techniques for bibliometric use cases.
Can Çelebi
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Topic
Clarifying Without Bias: Chatbots in Experimental Economics
About the speaker
Can Çelebi is an experimental economist working at the intersection of behavioral research and large language models. His work includes incorporating chatbots into experiments as interventions or instructional agents, developing reproducible methods to structure unstructured text, constructing efficient and low-cost LLM-based simulations of behavior, and identifying AI- or bot-driven responses in online surveys.
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Topic
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About the speaker
Raman Ganguly
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Topic
About the speaker
Raman Ganguly is head of the IT Support for Research department at the ZID. With a strong software development and media technology background, he has been actively involved in digital data archiving since 2011. He mainly focuses on design and technical models for data preservation. Additionally, he leads the development of Phaidra, along with other open-source projects aimed at data preservation. At the University of Vienna, Raman oversees the creation and operation of systems to preserve data from research and education long-term. Alongside this, he has contributed to various local and international projects, aiming to enhance research data infrastructure.