Bernhard M. Hämmerli

Bernhard M. Hämmerli

Bernhard M. Hämmerli, computer scientist, at work in a meeting of EU project Parsifal, Brussels

Bernhard M. Hämmerli, 2010
Born (1958-12-31) 31 December 1958
Wettingen, Switzerland
Residence Lucerne
Alma mater ETH Zurich
Occupation
Years active
Known for

Bernhard M. Hämmerli (born 31 December 1958) is a Swiss computer scientist in the fields of communications, networks and information security, specifically critical infrastructure protection in the European Union. He is teaching internationally, as a professor at both the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Gjøvik University College. He was on the Press Editorial Board of the IEEE Computer Society from 2007 to 2012, has been president of the Swiss Informatics Society from 2009 to 2014 and chair of the platform ICT Security of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Science from 2012.

Career

Born in Wettingen, Hämmerli studied electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. in 1988. He worked with the companies IBM, Swissair, and UBS. In 1992 he was appointed professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, now Hochschule Luzern.[1] After teaching micro processors, computer languages (Modula, C, C++) and software engineering. he focused on communications, networks, and information security, as "Professor für Informationssicherheit und Datennetzwerke" (information security and data networks).[2] He held a class in informatics (1992—1999), an executive master program in IT-Security (1998—2001), and a regional Cisco Academy for the Cisco Career Certifications CCNA (from 1998) and CCNP (from 2002). Since 2009, he has been teaching at the Gjøvik University College.[3]

Hämmerli served as a consultant for international corporations and worked as an expert in various commissions, especially for the building up of the Swiss Information Sharing Centre MELANI and the Swiss Information Operation Working Group. He is member of several scientific and industrial advisory boards and works in several program committees of scientific conferences. He has been on the board of the Information Security Society Switzerland (ISSS),[2] as vice president from 1997 to 2007, then as president to 2009.[1] Hämmerli is also a member of the Societé d’Informaticiens and the IEEE Computer Society, serving on its Press Editorial Board from 2007 to 2012.[4] From 2006 to 2010, he was on the advisory board of IT SEC Swiss.[5] Hämmerli is on the advisory board of the European Homeland Security Association.[6] From 2009 to 2014, he was president of the Swiss Informatics Society (SI).[1][7] [8] In 2012, he was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Science, serving as chair of the platform ICT Security.[1][9]

Hämmerli is the editor of the European Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Newsletter[2] and co-editor of digma, a journal for privacy and information security.[10] He was several times a member of international teams for FP7 projects, including Parsifal on "Protection and Trust in Financial Infrastructures".[1][11]

Notable publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hämmerli" (in German). Hochschule Luzern. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 "Portraits des ISSS Vorstands" (in German). ISSS. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  3. "Bernhard Markus Hämmerli". Gjøvik University College. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  4. "Reliability and Availability of Cloud Computing" (PFD). onlinelibrary.wiley.com. 2012. p. 2. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  5. Bujnoch, Catharina (29 March 2006). "Bernhard Hämmerli bei IT SEC Swiss" (in German). Computerworld. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
  6. "advisory board" (in German). EHSA. 2006. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  7. "Präsident" (in German). Swiss Informatics Society. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  8. "Die Schweizer Informatik Gesellschaft (SI) startet durch" (in German). sicherheit-online.ch. 7 May 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  9. "Themenplattform ICT Security" (in German). Swiss Academy of Engineering Science. 2006. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  10. "digma / Zeitschrift für Datenrecht und Informationssicherheit" (in German). schulthess.com. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
  11. "Haemmerli Bernhard". IDRC Davos 2010 Global Risk Forum. 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "Bernhard M. Hämmerli". University of Trier. 2010. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
  13. "Protecting Critical Infrastructure in the EU". ceps.eu. 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2010.

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