EUNIS25 Congress

Speaker

Alexander Loechel Alexander Loechel Senior IT Manager at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Alexander Loechel, Referent IT-Projekte is a senior IT Manager at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, responsible for strategic IT project management, digitalization, IT architecture, technology, and innovation management. Additionally, he is the IT representative of The European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH) in FOREU4All, and the European Digital Education Hub – European Higher Education Interoperability Framework (HEIF). He was the responsible manager for creating the integrated campus card “LMUcard” at LMU Munich, and is the project lead of eduTAP, digitizing campus cards. Alexander graduated in Informatics and researched in Operations Research about managing complexity, situational awareness, and geographic information systems. Alexander is a long-standing open-source contributor. Alexander was awarded twice the Tom Watkins, ECCA Conference Best Presentation Award, 2019 and 2022. Alexander has presented at various conferences, including IEEE, HICCS, EAIE, ECCA, EUNIS, ZKI, Plone Conference, PyConDE, and multiple conferences specific to digitalization on student mobility and Erasmus+ programmes.