Bernhard M. Hämmerli

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 Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He was 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. He has directed a new academic course, Cyber Security, at the Lucerne School of Information Technology from 2018.

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 (Hochschule Luzern). In 2012, he was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Science (Schweizerische Akademie der technischen Wissenschaften, SATW), serving as chair of the platform ICT Security.