Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth: February 20, 1958.

Citizenship: Danish.

Marital Status: Married to Trine Zink Stage.

Children: Amalie Zink Stage, born 1993; Morten Zink Stage, born 1997; Viktor Zink Stage, born 2002

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Academic Degrees:

• Dr. scient. (Ph.D.) in Computer Science. University of Oslo, April 24, 1989.
• Cand. scient. (M.Sc.) in Computer Science. Aalborg University, December 19, 1984.

• Full Professor in Computer Science, Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science, since February 2009.
• Visiting Lecturer in Information Systems, University of Auckland, Department of Management Science and Information Systems, August 2002 to June 2003, on sabbatical from Aalborg University.
• Associate Professor in Computer Science, Aalborg University, Department of Computer Science (formerly Institute for Electronic Systems), March 1991 to January 2009.
• Visiting Assistant Professor in Information Systems, State University of New York at Binghamton, School of Management, January 1991 to July 1991, on sabbatical from Aalborg University.
• Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Aalborg University, Institute for Electronic Systems, April 1988 to February 1991.
• Scholarship from Århus University, Computer Science Department, July 1985 to March 1988, to complete Ph.D. Programme in Computer Science at University of Oslo.
• Research Assistent in Computer Science, Aalborg University, Institute for Electronic Systems, January 1985 to June 1985.
• Lecturer in Computer Science, Aalborg University, September 1982 to December 1984, on exemption from MSc requirement for this position.
• Lecturer in Computer Science, Nordjyllands Amts Forberedelseskursus, August 1983 to June 1984, on exemption from MSc requirement for this position, teaching two evening courses in elementary computer science at high-school level.

• Usability testing and evaluation

• Design of human-computer interaction

• Design and evaluation of mobile systems

• Methods for analysis and design in software development

• Object-oriented analysis and design

• Prototyping in software development

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• The Web Portal Usability (WPU) Project: 2009 to 2012. Financed by The Danish Council for Strategic Research: 5.7 mio. DKK. I am the main applicant and project leader.
• The MAUSE Project (Towards the Maturation of Information Technology Usability Evaluation). Financed by COST as Action 294 (2005 to 2009). I was representing Aalborg University as a research partner.
• The USE Project (Usability Evaluation and Software Design: Bridging the Gap). Financed by NABIIT (2005-2008: 5.5 mio. DKK). I was the main applicant and project leader.
• The Digital Hospital Project. Associated with the Digital Lighthouse Project in Northern Jutland. Financed by the County of Northern Jutland. I was the leader of the task on usability (2002-2003: 0.5 mio. DKK).
• The Maritime Mobile Device Project (2001 to 2002). Associated with the Center for Human Machine Interaction (CHMI) . I was the project leader.
• The Staging of Virtual 3D-Spaces Project. Financed by the Danish Research Councils (1998-2001: 22.5 mio. DKK). I was the leader of a task (1998-2001: 1.3 mio. DKK).
• The Software Engineering Programme. Financed by the Danish Natural Science Research Council (1990 to 1994: 2 mio. DKK). I was the administrator and a senior researcher.
• Work Practices for Analysis and Design in System Development. In collaboration with Peter A. Nielsen. Financed by the Danish Ministry of Education (1989 to 1990: 0.1 mio. DKK).
• POLAR: Perspektiver på organisationer som ledetråd for arbejdsformer i systemudvikling. Financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers (1987 to 1989: 0.3 mio. DKK). I made the application and was the leader of the group.

Research Projects (as participant)

• Software Modelling Fundamentals Programme. Financed by the Danish Natural Science Research Council (1998-2000: 0.9 mio. DKK). I was a senior researcher.
• Software Factory Programme. Financed by the Danish Natural Science Research Council (1995 to 1997: 1.5 mio. DKK). I was a senior researcher.

Administration

• Member of the committees that designed the Informatics education that started in 1998 and the inter-faculty Bachelor in IT education that started in September 2007.
• Associate head of the Computer Science Department at Aalborg University; then with a staff of about 30 full-time employed faculty members, 20 Ph.D. students, and 350 graduate and undergraduate students. 1993 to 1999.
• Chairman/member of the computer science curriculum committee at Aalborg University. 1988 to 2006.
• Chairman/member of the committee that plans and coordinates the use of the building of the Computer Science Department, including design and planning of a completely new building in 1991. Since 1987.

Research Community Services

• External examiner on Ph.D. projects at University of Melbourne, University of Oslo, State University of New York at Binghamton, and Department of Medical Informatics at Aalborg University.
• Member of evaluation committees for associate and assistant professorships at University of Trondheim, University of Copenhagen, Technical University of Denmark, and Aalborg University.
• Member of the editorial board for Behaviour and Information Technology, International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction and Journal for Journal of Database Management.
• Associate editor for the ICIS conference.
• Reviewer for the CHI conference, the Interact conference, the BCS HCI conference, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Management Information Systems Quarterly, IEEE Computer, Communications of the ACM, Information and Software Technology, Information Systems Journal, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and International Conference on Information Systems.
• Research proposal evaluator for the European Union, the Human Potential Programme, NSF (National Science Foundation), Academy of Finland and Nutek (the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development).
• Evaluator for a venture foundation that funds small IT companies. Evaluator of the NAILS-96 software system for research in population estimation, developed for the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research by the Norwegian Computing Centre.
• Contractor on a TEMPUS project financed by the European Union with the purpose of introducing Master and Doctoral level courses in information systems and knowledge engineering ( project description ).

Hobby

• Racing and cruising in small and medium-sized keelboats (Omega 34, Nordic Folkboat, Knarr, Ylva) on national and local level, since 1982.
• Officiating in sailing: International Judge (at the Olympic games 2004 and 2008, several world championships and the olympic test events 2002 and 2003) and International Umpire (at the America's Cup 2003, the challenger series 2002/2003 and 2005/2006 and several world championships and grade 1 events), appointed by the International Sailing Federation.
• National judge and national umpire, appointed by the Danish Sailing Association.
• Service as a chairman and member of the International Sailing Federation's International Umpires Sub-Committee, and as instructor on international umpire seminars.
• Service as a member of the Danish Sailing Association's Appeals and Racing Rules Committee and Judge Committee, and as instructor on national and regional judge and umpire seminars.

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