Zohreh Pourzolfaghar

Assistant Professor

Email Address: [email protected]

Dr. Zohreh Pourzolfaghar is Assistant Professor in Management Information System (MIS), and Director of the IT-Enable Innovation Programme at the School of Business, Maynooth University (MU). She is also the lead of the Digital Construction cluster at the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), MU. She is member of Lero the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. She is a senior research member of the Business Informatics Group (IVI), and the theme lead in a project investigating the application of Enterprise Architecture in Smart Cities. Formerly, she held the positions of Research Fellow at IVI and Postdoctoral Researcher in a SFI funded research project titled “Smart City Reference IT Architecture” at Dublin City University (DCU). Zohreh received her PhD in Project Management from University Putra Malaysia (UPM) in 2011. The primary focus of her PhD research has been investigation of design processes from a perspective of information and knowledge management. She holds an MSc degree in Management Systems and Productivity, and a BSc in Software Engineering. Zohreh’s academic interests focus around investigating potential benefits businesses may obtain from exploiting the power of digital information, as well as researching the process of digital transformation for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Research Domains
  • Data Analytics
  • Data Governance
  • Data Management
  • Knowledge & Data Engineering
  • Standards

Publications