Associate Vice Presidents
Associate Vice Presidents, normally chosen from among the full and associate professors, can be assigned to assist members of the Executive Board with special tasks.
Associate Vice President for Digital Transformation and Governance
The Associate Vice President for Digital Transformation and Governance furthers the development and implementation of new initiatives and projects in matters of digital transformation and governance and supports the ETH Executive Board in this area.
Srdjan Capkun is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich and Chair of the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC). Originally from Split, Croatia, he received his Dipl. Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science from the external page University of Split in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree in Communication Systems from external page EPFL in 2004. His research interests are in system and network security. His focus areas are wireless security (in particular secure positioning), and system security where he focuses on trusted computing and blockchain technologies. He was a co-?founder of 3db Access (acquired by Infineon in 2023), which focused on secure distance measurement and proximity-?based access control, and of external page Futurae, a company focusing on usable on-?line authentication. In 2016 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for a project dedicated to securing positioning in wireless networks (external page www.securepositioning.ch). He is a fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.
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Deputy head of Dep. of Computer Science
Institut f. Informationssicherheit
Universit?tstrasse 6
8092
Zürich
Switzerland
Associate Vice President for IP Policy
As Associate Vice President for IP Policy, Stefan Bechtold, Professor of Intellectual Property, tackles topics such as guidelines for open-source software at ETH, training and awareness-raising measures for researchers regarding IP issues, and strategic matters in the Office of Corporate Relations and Knowledge Transfer.
Every year at ETH Zurich, we record around 200 inventions, file 80 to 100 patents and issue roughly 40 new licences. Because of technological progress and the internationalisation of the research landscape, the intellectual property (IP) underlying all of these advancements has become a highly dynamic area fraught with complexity. This raises new questions for ETH in terms of Swiss and international law and also offers opportunities for strategic decision-making.
The Executive Board plans to dedicate more resources to the strategic development of intellectual property issues. One point of emphasis will be protecting the intellectual property created at ETH Zurich so that researchers can use their knowledge for spin-off companies. The university would also like to focus on training scientists to understand the fundamentals of IP and to strategically deploy it in their research.
Stefan Bechtold has been part of ETH Zurich since 2008. From 2018 to 2021 he served as Head of Department for D-GESS, and he contributed to the organisational development project rETHink as part of Workstream 2, which was dedicated to improving and developing professorships at the university. His research interests include IP, technology and antitrust law as well as law and economics.
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Professur f. Intellectual Property
Haldeneggsteig 4
8092
Zürich
Switzerland
Associate Vice President for ETH Zürich 365体育官网_365体育备用【手机在线】 Heilbronn
As the Associate Vice President for ETH Zürich 365体育官网_365体育备用【手机在线】 Heilbronn, Boris Zürcher is strategically responsible for the planning, management and further development of this important future project of ETH Zürich. In collaboration with the Dieter Schwarz Foundation and the management of ETH Zürich 365体育官网_365体育备用【手机在线】 Heilbronn gGmbH, he defines the strategic direction and ensures that the ETH Zürich 365体育官网_365体育备用【手机在线】 Heilbronn is well known – both within ETH Zürich and in Switzerland and internationally. In fulfilling his role, Boris Zürcher is supported by the staff of ETH Zürich 365体育官网_365体育备用【手机在线】 Heilbronn, which he leads.
Boris Zürcher was Director of Labour at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) from 2013 until the end of 2024 and Chairman of the Supervisory Commission of the Unemployment Insurance Fund, the Federal Labour Commission, the Federal Tripartite Commission and the Tripartite Commission for International Labour Issues. Previously, he was Director and Chief Economist at BAKeconomics, Deputy Director and Chief Economist at Avenir Suisse, Economic Policy Advisor to Federal Councillors Pascal Couchepin, Joseph Deiss and Doris Leuthard, and Head of Labour Market Policy at SECO.
Boris Zürcher studied economics and sociology at the University of Berne and holds a PhD in economics. He completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical draughtsman with a Federal Certificate of Aptitude and obtained his Federal Baccalaureate while working. He has been a lecturer in economics at the University of Berne since 2003.
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Bereich Pr?sident der ETH Zürich
R?mistrasse 101
8092
Zürich
Switzerland
Associate Vice President for Sustainability Transformation
The associate Vice President for Sustainability Transformation is the chair of the Sustainability Council and advises the Executive Board on strengthening the culture of sustainability in teaching, research and transfer. He is engaged in further developing the Sustainability Council, taking into account ETH Zurich's institutional priorities for 2025–2036 and changes in the international context (Agenda 2030 and subsequent reference framework for sustainable development after 2030). The associate Vice President for Sustainability Transformation represents ETH Zurich in selected committees of (inter)national networks, at events and in the media.
Thomas Bernauer is a professor of political science at ETH Zurich. His research and teaching focus is int political economy as well as international environmental policy and economic policy. From 2004 to 2012, he was a member of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s research council and chaired the Programmes Division (national research programmes, national centers of excellence) from 2011 to 2012. Between 2015 and 2025 he acted as director of the ETH Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP), which finds its continuation in the Albert Einstein School of Public Policy.
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CIS
Haldeneggsteig 4
8092
Zürich
Switzerland