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Maria A. Wimmer, Dr. rer. techn., is a Full Professor of Electronic Government at the University Koblenz, Germany, Department of Computer Science. Maria chairs the research group E-Government with a team of more than fiveteen doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the field. Her main research focus is on designing, implementing and evaluating socio-technical information systems for digital government, including the use of disruptive technologies. Key research encompasses stakeholder participation, holistic design of complex information systems, qualitative data analyses, interoperability, as well as analysis, modeling and simulation of public policy and decision-making. She is a member of IEEE, ACM and the German Computer Society. Since 2005, Maria is PI or lead partner in a number of R&D projects at European, national and regional level. Examples are PEPPOL, e-SENS, ESPDint, Interplat or Interproc on cross-border public e-procurement and interoperability; TOOP and SCOOP4C on the realization of the once-only principle across Europe; OCOPOMO, eGovPoliNet, AI and COVID on data-driven policy analysis and modelling; and BKS-Portal.rlp, Data2Health, EG-DAS, Gov 3.0, KleBe.digital, NoLa, Smart Region Linz am Rhein and Smart Vinery on leveraging disruptive technologies. Since 2021, Maria is member of the German Computer Society's Board of Directors (Präsidium). In 2018, Dr. Wimmer was named “One of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government” by Apolitical (United Kingdom). See further info here: https://www.uni-koblenz.de/agvinf