Dr. Anita Mirijamdotter is Senior Professor of Informatics at Linnaeus University, Sweden, since 2008. In that role she serves as Head of Subject, which involves disciplinary responsibility for Informatic’s research and education, including its development, and leads the Inforamtics research group. Anita’s research and teaching focus on design and management of information, communication, and decision systems in dynamic organisational settings. Her specialization include: Digital Capability including Implementation and Evaluation; Systems Thinking Methodologies and Models; Knowledge Sharing and Exchange in information intensive organizations; and Participatory Action Research in relation to change management.

Anita has extensive experience delivering higher education across the globe. During her more than thirty years of career progression at academic institutions, she has developed, taught, and coordinated programs and courses at Bachelor, Master and Doctoral levels and examined round 200 Degree Projects, 15 and 30 credits. Anita has also experience in flexible education, incorporating campus and web-based distance learning courses and programs. This educational form includes international students from a variety of countries, e.g., Pakistan, India, China, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Germany, England and the USA, in addition to Sweden. Experience at research level includes supervision of eleven graduate students up to completion, serving as main supervisor for eight. At present, she supervises four PhD students as main supervisor. She has served as opponent at twelve PhD defences and as member of the exam committee at more than thirty PhD defences, both national and international.

Anita holds her PhD from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, where she has served in several positions over a twenty-year period and which culminated in an appointment as Professor of Informatics and Systems Science.  She has also been in residence abroad, including a post-doc at Lancaster University, UK, in 2000-2001, U.K., as Research Scholar at University of Colorado Denver, USA, in 2009, and as guest professor at University of Business and Technology, Faculty of Information Systems, Prishtina, Kosovo. She is also active in teaching and research exchanges with University of Tirana, Albania,

Besides management, research, supervision, and teaching in the Informatics department, Anita is active in the Linnaeus University Knowledge Environment Digital Transformation and in the research groups LNU Systems Community and Data-driven Business Innovation.