Swisscom supports new ETH professorship
Swisscom is supporting a new professorship in information security at ETH Zurich with a donation of 10 million Swiss francs.
According to the Swisscom press release, the aim of the partnership is to strengthen Switzerland as a research location in the field of information security, to establish it worldwide and to create a platform for professional exchange between science and industry. Professor Adrian Perrig has been recruited for the new professorship. The 40-year-old Swiss national studied computer science at the EPFL in Lausanne and completed his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. He has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon since 2002, where he also heads one of the world's largest research centers for information and computer security. Adrian Perrig will take up his post at ETH Zurich on December 1, 2012. The new professorship will be based in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.
The teaching and research remit of the new professorship covers all scientific issues relating to information security and is therefore also of great relevance to Swisscom. According to Roland Siegwart, Vice President of Research and Corporate Relations at ETH Zurich, and Stéphane Dufour, Head of Strategy and Innovation at Swisscom, the aim is to promote the exchange between science and industry on security-related issues. In this way, young talents at Swisscom can test scientific findings from research for possible applications in practice and thus gain additional experience.
