Eva Bittner becomes Full Professor of Information Systems
As of 1 February 2026, Eva Bittner joins the Department of Informatics as Full Professor of Information Systems. Warmly welcome, Eva!
Eva Bittner has been working as a Full Professor at the University of Hamburg (UHH), heading the research group Information Systems and Socio-Technical Design in the Department of Informatics. Before joining UHH, she received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Kassel in 2015.
Eva’s research interests lie in the areas of Collaboration Engineering, Human-Machine Collaboration and Hybrid Intelligence, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management, IT Innovation Management, and Co-Creation/Social Innovation. In particular, she focuses on the socio-technical design of collaboration processes, practices and tools for knowledge-intensive work using the capabilities of modern information and communication technology, such as (generative) AI. This includes, e.g., the augmentation of human creativity and problem-solving with AI-based assistance systems in complex real-world work contexts.
Eva’s work considers social, technical and cognitive factors toward effective human-machine collaboration as well as unintended side effects thereof. Application domains range from human-AI dyads and small groups to crowd work in organizations of various sizes and sectors, e.g., customer service, innovation and software development, education, citizen participation, and smart city contexts.
At the Department of Informatics, Eva will head the new research group Human-centered Information Systems Engineering and teach selected topics, e.g., on Collaboration Engineering for human-AI teams, management of AI, foundations of Information Systems (IS), and design-oriented IS research methods.