Researchers

Visiting researcher September 2009-May 2010

Currently masters student at School of Telecommunications Engineering, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Ester's research topics are:

• Cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum management.
• Supremacy in Broadband wireless access.
• Long term evolution vs WiMax.
• Dynamic Spectrum access allocation in next-generation wireless networks.

March 2010

Dr Kate Kaiser, Associate Professor of Management (Marquette University Wisconsin, USA. Kate researches future IT skill needs and the impact of offshore outsourcing from Ireland, Russia and India through research grants from the Sloan Foundation, 3M Foundation and the US State Department as a Fulbright Scholar.

Research Fellow, January 2009-May 2009

Professor Virpi Tuunainen is currently Professor of Information Systems Science and and Director of Aalto Service Factory at the Aalto University School of Economics, Department of Business Technology, Helsinki, Finland.

Professor Tuunainen's research focuses on:

• ICT enabled or supported service innovations.
• Electronic and mobile business and business models.
• Software business and real-time economy.

Research Fellow, September 2008-March 2009

Professor Jose Luis Melus Moreno is a full Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Telecommunications Engineering Department.

His present research interests include:

• Network management.
• Quality of service.
• Planning networks.
• Pricing telecommunications services.

Visitor, March 2008-March 2009

Riitta Hekkala, University of Oulu, Oulun yliopisto, Finland. Riitta's research interest is information systems development and implementation work. Her major research focus is the emotional experiences within Information Systems (IS) projects ("lived" experiences of IT project team members). She also has a strong interest in the use of grounded theory in information systems.

BIT Project Research Associate, October 2007-April 2008

Christoph Breidbach is currently Assistant Lecturer, Department for Management and International Business at The University of Auckland, Business School.

Christoph's current research interests are:

• Service science — especially service innovation, service engineering and the service dominant logic.
• Application of information technology in distributed work environments and customer involvement, both in the context of service innovation.

Visitor, November 2007

Professor Jonathan Schroeder is the William A Kern Professor of Communications at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Professor Schroeder's research focuses on three main questions:

1. How does visual communication create value?
2. How can we understand the cultural aspects of brands, consumption, and communication?
3. What is the relationship between strategy and style?

Professor Schroeder's research draws from art history, photography, and visual studies to develop an interdisciplinary, image-based approach to understanding consumer behaviour and how images create value. His books include Visual Consumption (2002) and Brand Culture (2006).

Visitor, November 2007

Dr Janet Borgerson,The University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics.

Dr Borgerson's research interests are:

• Existential phenomenology.
• Ethical theory.
• Consumer research.

Visitor, February 2007-August 2007

Michael Przybilski, Senior Lecturer, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. His professional interests are component-based software architectures and their combination with context-aware computing.

Visitor, January 2007

Dr Patrick Maillé, Assistant Professor at ENST-Bretagne in the Networks, Security, Multimedia Department, Télécom Bretagne (site de Rennes). Whilst at CODE, Dr Patrick Maillé and Dr Bruno Tuffin (The University of Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France) worked on Pricing policies for competing wireless service providers.

Dr Maillé’s research topics include:

• Game theory in networks.
• Network routing games.
• Auctions for network resource.
• Network pricing.
• Incentive mechanisms for resource sharing.

Visitor, January 2007

Dr Bruno Tuffin, INRIA researcher at IRISA, Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES Cedex, France. Dr Tuffin's research interests include the performance evaluation and the dependability analysis of network models. It is composed of methodological and application work including:

• Information Systems.
• Customer perceived value, commitment, loyalty, customer lifetime value in electronic services.