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The Centre for Management Simulation (ZMS)
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The Jury

The selection of the winning projects from the submitted academic works requires a high-calibre jury. The jury of the Global Simulation & Gaming Award is not only international but also represents a variety of academic discilplines.

 

Portrait of Dr. Jigyasu Dubey

Dr. Jigyasu Dubey, Centre of Excellence in Simulation and Gaming, Professor and Head, Department of Information Technology, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore - India

  • Ph. D. in the Faculty of Computer Engineering in the field of Computer Networking and Peer-to-Peer Computing
  • Worked as a reviewer of IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management and Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence published by Taylor and Francis
  • More than fifty publications in peer-reviewed International/National journals, and International /National Conferences.
  • Coordinator of the Webinar Series Pratiti …becoming aware based on S&G
Portrait Willy Kriz

Dr. Willy Kriz is a Professor for Human Resource Management and Leadership at Vorarlberg University of Applied Science, Austria: 

  • Founder member of SAGSAGA
  • Development and realization of simulation games
  • Director of and lecturer at the ISAGA summer school
Portrait: Elyssebeth Leigh

Dr. Elyssebeth Leigh is a highly qualified educator and a recognised leader in experiential and simulation-based learning. 

  • Doctor of Education, University of Technology Sydney
  • Author – most recently “Facilitating Simulations” Leigh and Levesque (2024) Edward Elgar 
  • Served on the Board of ISAGA and as General Secretary for 4 years; and on the Board of Simulation Australasia for two terms
  • Recipient of the Ray Page Award for lifetime services to simulation in Australia.
Portrait Heide Lukosch

Dr. Heide Lukosch is a Associate Professor at University of Canterbury, New Zeland at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering: 

  • Media and Social Scientist
  • Designing and evaluation of simulation games for complex systems
  • Chair of ISAGA, member of the Academic Committee of SAGSAGA
Portrait of Igor Mayer

Dr. Igor Mayer is a Professor at Breda, University of Applied Sciences in Serious Games, Innovation & Society, Academy for Games and Media (AGM) and a Professor at Tilburg Universtity for Playful Organizations & Learning Systems, Dep. Organization Studies, Faculty Social and Behavioral Sciences 

  • Founding member of Saganet, founder and former director TU Delft game lab, founder Cradle@BUas https://cradle.buas.nl/
  • Policy Games, Interactive Simulations, Game-based Digital Twins
  • Maritime Spatial Planning challenge simulation platform www.mspchallenge.info
Portrait Elizabeth Tipton

Dr. Elisabeth Tipton is a Professor Emeritus at Eastern Washington University, USA. Her field of research is Decision Science (Data Analytics): 

  • I have spent over half of a century playing and designing games and simulation due to my grandfather and father’s interest – a long long story and why I ended up becoming a data analytics professor before the field even existed.
  • Besides the usual book chapters, journal articles, and presentation papers, I have done many workshops at multiple different conferences on many topics with many co-presenters over the years, including students and even some of my fellow jurists.
  • As part of the International Simulation and Gaming Association, I organized the 2010 conference, and was on the executive board for several years. I still serve as a reviewer for Simulation and Gaming as needed.
Portrait Friedrich Trautwein

Dr. Friedrich Trautwein is a Professor for Business Administration at the DHBW Stuttgart and the Scientific Director of the Centre for Management Simulation: 

  • Chair of the Jury for the Global Simulation & Gaming Award
  • Co-responsible for the research forum on SG, the European Simulation and Gaming Forum as well as the ZMS publication series on SG
  • Research on methodological and didactic aspects of SG
  • Honoured with the state teaching award for outstanding and innovative concepts on facilitation of SG
Portrait Marchin Wardazko

Dr. Marcin Wardaszko, Assistant Professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Head of the Department of Quantitative Methods & Information Technology:

  • Founder of Center for Simulation Games and Gamification at Kozminski University
  • Board Member at International Simulation and Gaming Association
  • Associate Editor Journal Simulation & Gaming / SAGE Publishers
  • Member at Swiss, Austrian and German Simulation and Gaming Association
  • Fellow at Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning