Prof. em. Dr. Peter Baccini

Peter Baccini was Full Professor of Resource and Waste Management at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, beginning in October 1991. He retired on 30 September 2004.

Peter Baccini was born in 1939 in Gerlikon TG. After studying in the USA, he took a degree in natural sciences at the ETH Zurich, where he later earned his doctoral degree under Professor W. Schneider. Other stations along the way: five years in research and development for the chemical industry, nine years of water research at the EAWAG in Kastanienbaum LU (1974-1983), associate professor of Environmental Chemistry at the University of Neuchâtel (1974-1991), visiting scientist at the University of Goettingen and at the University of California Riverside (1981), from 1994 to 1996 head of the Department of Rural Engineering and Geodetic Sciences at the ETH Zurich.