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Henk
G. Sol, Ph.D.
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft
University of Technology |
Prof.dr.
Henk G. Sol, born in 1951, graduated in 1974 ‘cum
laude’ from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands,
with a MSc in Operations Research and Information Systems.
He obtained a Ph.D. ‘cum laude’ from the University
of Groningen on the subject of ‘Simulation in Information
Systems Development’ in 1982.
He was
involved in the development and control of a Masters Program
in Information Systems within the School of Economics and
Management Science of the University of Groningen from 1974
to 1984.
Prof.
Sol became a Chaired Professor of ‘Information Systems
Development’ at Delft University of Technology in
1984, where he developed the Department of Information Systems
to one of the leading Information Engineering Schools in
Europe.
From
1992 – 1998 he was founding Dean of the new School
for Engineering, Policy Analysis and Management. He prepared
the merger, in 1998, into the Faculty of Technology, Policy
and Management.
In 1992
Prof. Sol was appointed as Chaired Professor of ‘Systems
Engineering’ at Delft University of Technology.
In 1999
Prof.Sol was appointed as Scientific Director of the Delft
Institute for Information Technology in Service Engineering
and of the Airport Development Center.
From
2000 to 2003 Prof.Sol was again Dean of the Faculty of Technology,
Policy & Management and Chaired Professor of Systems
Engineering, in particular Business Engineering and ICT.
In 2003
he was appointed chairman of Delft TopTech Studies, School
for Executive Education and Chaired Professor of Systems
Engineering.
His
research focuses on the development of services enabled
by ICT, management information systems, decision support
systems and telematics. Currently his research interest
shifts towards designing information-intensive, innovative
organizations. He is a well-known author with a few hundred
publications in these fields.
Under
his responsibility 50 Ph.D. dissertations were finished.
Prof.
Sol organized numerous international conferences and workshops
and gave a great many invited presentations.
He serves
in editorial roles with journals as Decision Support Systems,
Electronic Journal of E-commerce, Organizational Science,
Communications of AIS and Information and Management.
He is
member of IFIP TC 8, W.G. 8.1, 8.2, 8.4 and various other
professional organizations. He received the IFIP Outstanding
Service Award as well as the IFIP Silver Core.
He is
one of the founding fathers of AIS and one of its first
vice-presidents.
He has
acted as a management consultant for a large range of national
and international organizations since 1972. He is chairman/member
of the (Supervisory) Board of several companies.
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