Prof. David Basin chosen as SATW member
Professor David Basin from the Department of Computer Science has been selected as an individual member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).
The members of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) have elected Professor David Basin as an individual member of the academy, effective January 1, 2020.
The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW is the most important network of experts for engineering sciences in Switzerland and is in contact with the highest Swiss bodies for science, politics and industry. The network is comprised of selected individual members, member organisations and experts. SATW has around 350 individual members and 55 member organisations. Individual members are outstanding experts from the fields of education, research, commerce and industry and politics. They are appointed for life.
About David Basin
David Basin is Full Professor at ETH Zurich since 2003 and holds the chair for Information Security within the Institute of Information Security at the Department of Computer Science. He is also the current Department Head.
He received his bachelors degree in mathematics from Reed College in 1984, his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1989, and his Habilitation from the University of Saarbrücken in 1996. His appointments include a postdoctoral position at the University of Edinburgh (1990-1991), and afterwards he led a subgroup, within the programming logics research group, at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (1992-1997). From 1997-2002 he was a Full Professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany.
His research focuses on Information Security, in particular on foundations, methods, and tools for modeling, building, and validating secure and reliable systems. He is Editor-in-Chief of the external page ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security and of Springer-Verlag's book series on external page Information Security and Cryptography. He is also the founding director of ZISC, the Zurich Information Security Center, which he led from 2003-2011. He was named Fellow of the ACM in 2018 for his contributions to Information Security and Formal Methods.