Lorenz Hilty is full professor at the Department of Informatics of UZH. Positions:
- Head of the Informatics and Sustainability Research Group (Forschungsgruppe Informatik und Nachhaltigkeit) since 2010 ISR Group
- Sustainabilty Delegate of UZH since 2014 Sustainability at UZH
- Director of the Zurich Knowledge Center for Sustainable Development since 2022 ZKSD
CV and publications list on ORCID:
Research
Lorenz Hilty works on sustainablity aspects of the digital transformation with a focus on technology assessment (TA), taking into account environmental, social and ethical issues of digital information and communication technolgies. For recent projects and publications see:
Research page of the ISR Group
Publication page of the ISR Group
Teaching
- Paradigmen der Informatik
- Informatik, Ethik und Gesellschaft
- Digitalization and Sustainable Development
- Information Systems I (with Jan Bieser and Claudio Tessone)
- Nachhaltigkeit jetzt! (with Aline Steinbrecher and Jeannette Behringer, public lecture)
- Einführung in die Grundlagen der Nachhaltigkeit (Teil Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien)
- Virtual guest lectures at KTH and TUB
Steering Committees and Boards
- School for Transdisciplinary Studies, UZH STS
- Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance, UZH CCSF
- Klimaplattform der Wirtschaft Zürich Klimaplattform
- Foundation for Technology Assessment, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences TA-SWISS
- University of Constance Constance University Council
- Expert Committee on Environmental Informatics GI
- International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education IJSHE
- Research Coordination Network on the Digital Economy and the Environment RCN-DEE
- International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainability ICT4S
Previous Positions and Activities
- Affiliated Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (2013-2018) KTH
- Head, Technology and Society Lab at Empa 2004-2010 TSL
- Head, Research Program Sustainability in the Information Society at Empa, funded by the ETH board 2000-2004
- Guest Professor of New Media and Sustainability at Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna (2008) SEC
- Professor of Information Systems 1998-2000, FHNW
- Researcher and project leader, Research institute for Applied Knowledge Processing FAW, University of Ulm FAW
- Postdoc, Institute for Economy and the Environment (IWÖ), University of St. Gallen HSG
- Postdoc, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg UHH
- Co-founder of the University of Hamburg spin-off Institut für Umweltinformatik (ifu), which created the Umberto software and later merged with ipoint ifu
Personal Contribution to Climate Protection
- No air travel since March 2017, which saves 2-3 tons of CO2 per intercontinental flight. For details on travel emissions see UZH's factsheet on Business Travel
- No car, which saves at least 1.7 tons of CO2 per year. For details on different modes of commuting see UZH's factsheet on Commuter Traffic
- Flexitarian diet (usually no meat/fish), saving about 0.5 tons on CO2 equivalent emissions per year. For details see UZH's factsheet on Food (PDF, 488 KB)