Jan Marco Leimeister is Chair for Information Systems and Director of the Institute of Information Management (IWI-HSG), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is furthermore Chair for Information Systems and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) at Kassel University, Germany.

His teaching and research areas include Digital Business, IT innovation management, Service Science, Collaboration Engineering, Ubiquitous Computing and Crowdsourcing. Jan Marco Leimeister serves on the editorial board of various international journals and is regularly member of programme committees of international conferences in the field of Information Systems. He runs several research groups and his research projects are funded by European Union, German Ministries, DFG, various foundations and industry.