Director and Founder of the Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation (E-Voting.CC); Election observer (with focus on e-voting) amongst others in Estonia, Venezuela, USA, and Russia; Speaker at international conferences in Europe and the US;
1999-2001 Chairman of Student Union, 2007-2009 Chairman of Doctoral Students Chapter at Vienna University of Economics; Over 50 international publications, 3 edited books; Awarded by BMW, Kurier, and the New York University.

You can reach him at r.krimmer(at)e-voting.cc.

Manuel joined in 2007 and is now a consultant and project manager for E-Voting.CC. Since his graduation in Political Science in Jan. 2009 he has been also working as a researcher at the University of Munich. There, he studied Political Science with minors in Cultural Antropology and Law at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut for Political Science and attended courses at the University of Helsinki and the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis. He is currently conducting his PhD at the University of Munich in the area of governance of innovations and new technologies.
Manuel has project and working experience in the field of ICT and mobile communication, wrote research proposal for international funding and political consulting. His academic research interests are the governance of technology and knowledge as well as the development of modern society and democracy under the influence of technology.

Daniel joined E-Voting.cc in August 2007 as a project assistant to set up and maintain the E-Voting Database. He also co-organized the "EVOTE08" conference and co-edited the magazine "Modern Democracy".
He is now in charge of organizing the EVOTE2010 conference, which will take place from 21st to the 24th of July 2010 in Lochau, near Bregenz.

Next to his work, Daniel studies Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics. His majors are Marketing and Behavioural Science Oriented Management. He holds an I.P.M.A. certificate in project management. For his diploma thesis he did qualitative research to evaluate the IT support of the Austrian election system.

Katharina Stöbich joined E-Voting.CC in October 2007 and was in charge of organizing the EVOTE08 conference in Bregenz as well as the E-Voting seminar at the Danube University Krems.

Next to her work she studied political science at the University of Vienna. She finished her master at the Vienna university where she graduated in Political Science in April of 2009. Katharina now lives in Israel and is still working for us on a freelance basis.

Educated at the Vienna University of Economics. Developed the model for the “eVoting readiness scale” in his diploma thesis. Co-direction of the research project “Benchmarking E-Voting: Analysing the Readiness for Introduction of Electronic Voting in 28 European Countries”. The aim of the project is to analyse the evoting readiness on country-level.

Former student of the Vienna University of Economics and part of e-voting.cc since 2005. Stefan started as developer of this platform and ended up writing his diploma thesis on the "Development of Electronic Voting Worldwide". He is still working as a freelancer for E-Voting.CC.