Anja Maier new professor at DTU Management Engineering

DTU Management Engineering welcomes Anja Maier as Professor of Engineering Systems. Her inaugural professorship lecture on Designing Engineering Systems will take place on Friday, December 4th, 2015 from 15:00-16:00 at DTU’s Skylab in Building 373A, followed by a reception. 

Taking ethnographic- and data-driven experimental design approaches, her research focuses on engineering systems design, with a particular emphasis on complexity and human behaviour, such as design communication. Anja works with national and international academic- and industry partners, spanning predominantly aerospace, automotive, energy, healthcare, and information technology. With her research, she has contributed to developing new knowledge, methods, and tools, in particular to improving the design process in collaborative systems design and innovation.

Anja Maier’s most recent work consists of leading various projects on engineering systems design in healthcare, adapting wearable sensing technology to the elderly with dementia co-funded by Glostrup Hospital and VihTEK, a project on using network insights, e.g. through mapping technological capabilities to identify potential for sustainable production, financed by the Danish Industry Foundation, research into visual modelling of complex engineering systems, together with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and DTU Compute, and research on visual communication design for decision making in situations of emergency, as part of the OECD Halden Reactor Project.

Anja Maier was awarded a PhD degree in Engineering Design in 2007 from the University of Cambridge, UK, where she continued as a Research Associate in the Engineering Design Centre. Anja Maier joined DTU Management Engineering in 2010 as Associate Professor and was appointed Professor of Engineering Systems on July 1, 2015. Her academic career includes visiting professorships at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US