IVI Staff

Fiona Lynch

Hao Wu

Joseph Timoney

Marija Bezbradica

Donal Fitzpatrick

Artem Bielozorov

Artem Bielozorov is a PhD Student at Maynooth University and a Marie Curie Training Network Fellow.

Rehan Iftikhar

Rehan Iftikhar is a PhD Student at Maynooth University and a Marie Curie Training Network Fellow.

Douglas Cirqueira

Douglas Cirqueira is a PhD Student at Dublin City University and a Marie Curie Training Network Fellow

Stephanie Lewellen

Stephanie Lewellen is a part-time and remote PhD student at Maynooth University and a Product Manager in the software industry.

Esma Mine Yildiz

Esma Mine Yildiz is a Project Management Specialist and a Researcher at Dublin City University.

Priyanka Singh

Priyanka Singh is a PhD student in the Business School at Maynooth University.

Claudia Roessing

Claudia Roessing is a PhD student in the Business School at Maynooth University.

Viviana Bastidas

Viviana Bastidas is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Maynooth University.

Beatrice Heneghan

Beatrice Heneghan is a Head of Information Systems in Mayo Council and a Doctorate Candidate at University of Limerick

Mouzhi Ge

Mouzhi Ge is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Informatics at the Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Armin Shams

Armin Shams is a Research Fellow with Lero and Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.

Gabriel Hogan

Gabriel Hogan is an IP Manager at the Science Foundation Ireland and a part-time PhD candidate.

Marco Alfano

Marco Alfano is a Research Fellow at Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software, and an Affiliated Researcher at Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University. He is currently working on patient empowerment by facilitating acquisition, comprehension and learning of health information on the Internet. His research interests include e-health, smart cities, data analytics, machine learning, information retrieval and Open Data/Big Data. He has authored more than fifty peer reviewed articles for journals, books and conferences. He has received grants from international bodies such as the European Union (under the FP7 H2020 framework programs) and national bodies such as Enterprise Ireland and the National Research Council of Italy participating to several European projects.

Zohreh Pourzolfaghar

Zohreh Pourzolfaghar is Assistant Professor at School of Business in Nationational University of Ireland(NUIM). She is a members of Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Zohreh formerly has been Research Fellow at Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at NUIM. She is a senior research member of the Business Informatics Group. She is the theme lead in a project investigating the application of Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities, funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). She has been Principle Investigator for an Industry Fellowship Programme, funded by SFI. Zohreh presented her work at international conferences and has published research in Journals and Conference Proceedings. Zohreh is also leading research within the Cost Action CA16222 (WISE-ACT), a European-wide network.  She has been thematic lead in a successful European Marie Curie PERFORM project. She is a member of the supervisory board of the EU project PERFORM, that focuses on Digital Retail. She has been awarded the SFI industry fellowship (2018) working with industry on topics related to Smart Cities and Building Information Management. She is the Co-PI for submitted H202 Techland proposal. Zohreh received her Ph.D. in Project Management in design process of building projects. Zohreh has years of experience working with project-oriented construction companies to improve organisatioanal productivity and their work processes.

Gültekin Cakir

Gültekin Cakir is a Researcher at the IVI, Maynooth University, Ireland, and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the PERFORM European Training Network, a Horizon 2020 funded project, where he is also chair of the ESR-Committee. He was involved in various consulting projects with SMEs and has a background in Business Management, Digital Retail and Information Systems. His research interest and recent publications deal with strategic and operational challenges retailers face such as the “Retail Apocalypse“, while undergoing the digital transformation process in the industry. Currently, he is investigating the strategic barriers of assortment integration while pursuing an omnichannel retailing approach. With the help of major Austrian and Irish retailers, he explores the underlying factors and new dynamics in assortment decision-making.

Markus Helfert

Markus Helfert is Professor in Digital Service Innovation at Maynooth University, Innovation Value Institute (Ireland) and the Director of the Business Informatics Group at Maynooth University. He is a Principle Investigator at Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and at the Adapt Research Centre. His research is centred on Digital Service Innovation, Smart Cities and IoT based Smart Environments and includes research areas such as Service Innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Services, Building Information Management, FinTech, Data Value, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Adoption, Analytics, Business Process Managem ent. Prof. Helfert is an expert in Data Governance Standards and is involved in European Standardisation initiatives. Markus Helfert has authored more than 200+ academic articles, journal and book contributions and has presented his work at international conferences. Helfert has received national and international grants from agencies such as European Union (FP7; H2020), Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, was project coordinator on EU projects, and is the Project coordinator of the H2020 Projects: PERFORM on Digital Retail.