Annual Report 2015 Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research University of Graz, Merangasse 18/1, A-8010 Graz Tel: +43 (0) 316/380-3238, Fax: +43 (0) 316/380-9585 E-Mail:
[email protected], Web: http://isis.uni-graz.at/de/ Institute of Systems Sciences, Innovation & Sustainability Research University of Graz Merangasse 18/I, 8010 Graz, AUSTRIA 2 Editorial Another year of intensive interdisciplinary research and teaching at ISIS is over. Several changes occurred in 2015 and, once more, we made many considerable achievements at our institute. Perhaps the most striking event, the establishment of a new professorship, strongly supported the third pillar of our activities. In the autumn of 2015, Tobias Stern (coming from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna) accepted an offer from the University of Graz to fill the position of Professor of Energy and Resource Innovation, thus, representing an important addition to one of ISIS’s central fields of activity. As an outstanding expert in the field, Prof. Stern will lend his profound expertise on wood processing, forestry and innovative forms of energy to our team. Other relevant changes took place in 2015 in the fields of Sustainability Management and Systems Sciences involving personnel. In the field of Systems Sciences, some unexpected staff member losses needed to be compensated. The future research and teaching activities in the field of Sustainability Management will be supported by two of our long-standing institute members. Romana Rauter and Thomas Brudermann have managed to negotiate their tenure agreements with the university and, henceforth, will contribute to our institute as assistant professors.