Curriculum vitae

HERMANN HUEMER, MA, MSc, PhD

born in Linz

„Knowledge, opinion, faith, hope – they are all determined by information and information deficits.“

since 2017:

Founding President of IKIS and CEO of IICIIS

2013 – 2017:

Executive Secretary

  • of the Austrian Documentation Society ÖGDI
  • Director of Training

2009 – 2012:

Senior Project Manager in Standardization

  • at the Austrian Standards Institute
    Standardization in service industries
  • Secretary for CEN Technical Committees: projects concluded:
    1. CEN/TS 16118:2012 – Sheltered housing – Requirements for services for older people provided in a sheltered housing scheme
    2. EN 16224:2012 – Healthcare provision by chiropractors

2007 – 2009:

Project Manager in Quality Assurance

  • at AQA, the Austrian Quality Assurance Agency
    Evaluation of higher education institutions and their study and research programmes

1996 – 2005:

Research Information Manager

  • at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna (BOKU Wien),
  • at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien), and
  • at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

2003:

2nd Award of the Österreichisches Universitätenkuratorium for the project „Research Information System“ (a cooperation with BOKU Wien, WU Wien and University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)

1994 – 1996:

Politicking

  • for the newly founded Austrian Liberal Party

1989 – 1994:

Project and Teaching Assistant in Mineralogy & Petrology

  • at the Geotechnical Institute of the Federal Testing and Research Institute Arsenal/Vienna,
  • at the University of Mining and Metallurgy Leoben, Institute of Geosciences, and …
  • … Editorial Assistant of ‚Mineralogy & Petrology‘ (Springer)

EDUCATION & TRAINING

  • Project Management (MSP),
  • Vocational study programme „Management“ at „Vienna University of Applied Sciences“ (FH Wien),
  • Vocational training for information professionals (ÖGDI and ÖNB),
  • Post-graduate study „Business Administration, Law and Economics“ at the Technical University Graz and the University Graz,
  • MSc and PhD studies at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Science (Earth Sciences) (with scholarships at the University of New Mexico, USA and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)