Prof. Dr Maria A. Wimmer is full professor for E-Government at University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany and founding member of the National E-Government Competence Centre. Her research focuses on ICT in the public sector and covers issues such as e-government and e-participation policies and strategies, data and process analysis and simulation process, ontology developments, content structuring and knowledge portals, stakeholder engagement, standardisation and interoperability, and evaluation of ICT solutions for the public sector.

Her research is driven by design science research, supporting the transition of government, governance and citizen engagement to innovative interaction models on the Internet. Maria is extensively working interdisciplinary, i.e. collaborating with social sciences and humanities in exploring innovative ICT to enable social innovation and new governance models of state supported with digital tools. Maria teaches and publishes in above research fields.