Dr. Gert-Jan de Vreede is a Professor at the Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the director of the Institute for Collaboration Science which was established in 2006. He is also affiliated with the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from where he received his PhD. In 1996 he was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona. In addition, he works as an international consultant in the area of collaboration and collaboration technologies.

Currently his research focuses on Collaboration Engineering, the theoretical foundations of (e)-collaboration, the (un)successful implementation of e-collaboration technologies, the development of practitioner-driven collaboration processes, facilitation of group meetings, and the diffusion of collaboration technology. His research has been published in various journals, including Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, DataBase, Group Decision and Negotiation, Simulation, Journal of Decision Systems, Journal of Creativity and Innovation Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, International Journal of Technology and Management, Journal of Information Technology Cases & Applications, Journal of Information Systems and Operational Research, Information Technology for Development, African Journal of Finance and Management, Journal of Informatics Education and Research, Simulation & Gaming, and Journal of Simulation Practice and Theory. His research combines theoretical rigor with practical value. His research has been both informed by and applied in his work for a large variety of organizations in the US , Europe , and Africa . He facilitated hundreds of electronic workshops that addressed various issues such as strategy development, Delphi-studies, risk management, product development, expert consultations, process re-design, and gaming simulations. He successfully developed and transferred practitioner-driven collaboration processes for risk & control self assessments.