Session Chairs Research Symposium

	Professor Jan Bröchner was appointed to the Chair of Organization of Construction, specializing in Facilities Management, at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg in 1998. He is active within EuroFM and is a Regional Editor for ‘Facilities’.”
	Professor Tore I Haugen is professor in architectural management and facilities management at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU. He established the Norwegian Centre for Real Estate and Facilities Management at the NTNU and is full time dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at NTNU since October 2005.
	Prof. Dr. Kunibert Lennerts is university professor for facility management at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) since 2000. Until his appointment, he was head of the real estate management division of the German railway company in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
	Prof. Dr. Kari I. Leväinen is Professor of Real Estate and Facilities Management at Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). He has been a member of IFMA and TKK a member of EuroFM since mid 1990s.
	Dr Margaret Nelson is currently a Reader at the University of Bolton, with responsibility for research activities for the construction and property management in the Department of the Built Environment. She has several years experience of working in practice and academia and is the co-ordinator of the EuroFM postgraduate research network.
	Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Schalcher is professor of planning and management in construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology Zurich (ETH) since 1990. His teaching and research activities focus on project management, facility management and real estate development.
	Prof. Keith Alexander is Professor of Facility Management and Director of the Centre for Facilities Management at the University of Salford in Great Britain. In addition, he was a founder and former President of the European Facilities Management Network EuroFM and a Fellow of IFMA.
	Prof. Dr. Andreas F. van Wagenberg has held the Chair of Facility Management at the University of Wageningen since 2000. He has been Director of Van Wagenberg Associates since 1995, and Director of CFM Netherlands since 1998. Prior to that he held the Chair of Facility Management at the Technical University of Eindhoven.
Speakers Research Symposium
	Carolin Bahr is a research assistant at University of Karlsruhe (TH). She is particularly concerned with optimal and life-cycle-oriented maintenance of public-sector real estate.
	Wolfgang Brunauer is research fellow at the University of Applied Sciences in Kufstein, where he is currently doing a Research Project in the field of Real Estate Benchmarking. After having finished his studies of Facility Management he started his PhD studies at the University of Innsbruck in 2004.
	Karin Diez is research assistant at the University of Karlsruhe. Her research focus lies on life cycle analysis of historic buildings. After finishing her studies of architecture at University of Karlsruhe and the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago she worked for two years in an architectural office.
	Gregor Fleischmann is writing his dissertation on ‘Reference Processes within Facility Management’ at the Centre for Information and Facility Management. Before that he graduated in architectural studies at Vienna University of Technology, as well as completing a course in electrical engineering at the TGM in Vienna.
	Susanne Hauk is writing her dissertation on ‘Economic Efficiency of Facility Management’ at the Centre for Information and Facility Management. Before that she graduated in architectural studies at Vienna University of Technology.
	Per Anker Jensen is associate professor at Technical University of Denmark since 2005 with the responsability to develop Facilities Management as a new subject in research and teaching at the department of civil engineering.
	Matthias Koch finished his formation at the HTL Innsbruck, majoring in civil and underground engineering. In 2004, he started his studies of Economics and Physics at the University of Innsbruck, where he is mainly occupied with growth models and capital market modeling.
	Daryl May is Senior Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University since 2001. He is responsible for the Southern NHS FM Network. In addition to the research, Daryl teaches on several units of the Certificate in FM and MBA in FM courses.
	Priska Mebes is Senior Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. The discrete simulation and combinatorial optimization belong to her special fields. The topic of her dissertation is about Simulation and Material Flow Trace.
	Suvi Nenonen is a Research Manager in Facilities Services Research Group/Construction Economics and Management at the Helsinki University of Technology. Her main research area is Workplace Management. Besides that she is Senior Lecturer at the Turku University of Applied Sciences.
	Veronika Pichler is assistant and PhD-student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich Before starting her PhD-program she worked at the engineering company Ertl, Horn & Partner in Austria.
	James Pinder is a researcher and lecturer in the Facilities Management Graduate Centre (FMGC) at Sheffield Hallam University. Until recently he was responsible for the FMGC's Local Government FM Network. He completed his PhD in 2004 and is in the process of completing an MA in Social Science Research Methods.
	Dr. Alexander Redlein is Professor for Facility Management and Head of the Centre of Information- und Facility Management (IFM) at the Viennese Technical University. After his interdisciplinary studies he is now engaged in research, education and consulting in the area of FM.
	Ruth Saurin is a postgraduate researcher within the Futures Academy at Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland since two years. Currently she works on her PhD in the area of FM Futures.
	Dietmar Wiegand is senior researcher and project manager at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and has ten years of experience in research and development of IT for the domains Real Estate Development and FM.
	Lukas Windlinger has been a lecturer and research project leader at the University of Applied Sciences Wädenswil since 2002. Prior to that he was research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). His main research interests are workplace management, human-environment interaction and (computer-supported) mobile work in FM.