To begin, can you briefly explain what led you to your current role?
After receiving my PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany, I joined IBM Research – Zurich as
a research staff member in 1988. Having spent many years in a university
environment, I wanted to experience work in an industrial research lab,
where projects must be not only academically interesting but also hold
practical relevance to the future of the enterprise.
I worked on numerous research projects in various positions ranging
from high-performance communication systems to message brokering
in a medical environment. Following an assignment at IBM´s TJ Watson
Research Center near New York, USA, in the late 1990s, I was offered the
position of Lab Director in 2000.
Your mission as the European branch of IBM Research is to foster
relationships with academic and industrial partners throughout
Europe, attract the most talented and promising European research
staff and pursue research in technical areas in which Europe is the
global leader. What strategies do you employ?
These goals are not targeted in silos and are the responsibility of all IBMers
at the Zurich and Dublin labs. Several of our most senior scientists have
teaching duties at the renowned Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH) in Zurich, which affords them a prime opportunity to seek out and
identify new talent. We are also very active in promoting our scientists
at academic conferences and via social media. Finally, we have been very
active and successful in participating in the EU’s Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7), which enables us to collaborate with top universities
throughout Europe.
In addition to working with academia, we cultivate strong relationships
with industrial partners; for example, in collaborative research projects
such as FlexLast. FlexLast was a joint endeavour including BKW FMB
Energy Ltd, the electricity utility provider of the Swiss Canton of Bern, and
Migros, Switzerland’s largest retailer and supermarket chain, in addition
to Swissgrid, the national Swiss grid operator, and IBM. The goal, which
we successfully reached, was to use refrigeration warehouses as buffers to
help balance fluctuations of the availability of sun and wind energy on the
energy grid.
Can you offer a brief overview of some of the areas in which your labs
currently work?
IBM Research – Zurich is one of IBM’s 12 research centres around the
globe and was the first to be established outside the US in the 1950s.
Our scientists represent more than 45 nationalities and their expertise
covers everything from atoms to analytics. More specifically, our research
spectrum ranges from exploratory research in nanotechnology for
future devices, to novel microserver and storage technologies, advanced
computer simulations for science and industry, big data analytics, cognitive
computing and cloud technology, to cyber-security and privacy. In the
latter area, which is currently receiving a lot of public attention, I am
proud to say we have a world-class team here in Zurich. Its main focus
is to develop cryptographic methods that allow people to protect their
personal internet data while still being able to identify themselves in a
secure manner when using the internet services of their choice. We are
also developing applied technologies in fields such as business process
To begin, can you briefly explain what led you to your current role?
After receiving my PhD in Computer Science from the University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany, I joined IBM Research – Zurich as
a research staff member in 1988. Having spent many years in a university
environment, I wanted to experience work in an industrial research lab,
where projects must be not only academically interesting but also hold
practical relevance to the future of the enterprise.
I worked on numerous research projects in various positions ranging
from high-performance communication systems to message brokering
in a medical environment. Following an assignment at IBM´s TJ Watson
Research Center near New York, USA, in the late 1990s, I was offered the
position of Lab Director in 2000.
Your mission as the European branch of IBM Research is to foster
relationships with academic and industrial partners throughout
Europe, attract the most talented and promising European research
staff and pursue research in technical areas in which Europe is the
global leader. What strategies do you employ?
These goals are not targeted in silos and are the responsibility of all IBMers
at the Zurich and Dublin labs. Several of our most senior scientists have
teaching duties at the renowned Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH) in Zurich, which affords them a prime opportunity to seek out and
identify new talent. We are also very active in promoting our scientists
at academic conferences and via social media. Finally, we have been very
active and successful in participating in the EU’s Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7), which enables us to collaborate with top universities
throughout Europe.
In addition to working with academia, we cultivate strong relationships
with industrial partners; for example, in collaborative research projects
such as FlexLast. FlexLast was a joint endeavour including BKW FMB
Energy Ltd, the electricity utility provider of the Swiss Canton of Bern, and
Migros, Switzerland’s largest retailer and supermarket chain, in addition
to Swissgrid, the national Swiss grid operator, and IBM. The goal, which
we successfully reached, was to use refrigeration warehouses as buffers to
help balance fluctuations of the availability of sun and wind energy on the
energy grid.
Can you offer a brief overview of some of the areas in which your labs
currently work?
IBM Research – Zurich is one of IBM’s 12 research centres around the
globe and was the first to be established outside the US in the 1950s.
Our scientists represent more than 45 nationalities and their expertise
covers everything from atoms to analytics. More specifically, our research
spectrum ranges from exploratory research in nanotechnology for
future devices, to novel microserver and storage technologies, advanced
computer simulations for science and industry, big data analytics, cognitive
computing and cloud technology, to cyber-security and privacy. In the
latter area, which is currently receiving a lot of public attention, I am
proud to say we have a world-class team here in Zurich. Its main focus
is to develop cryptographic methods that allow people to protect their
personal internet data while still being able to identify themselves in a
secure manner when using the internet services of their choice. We are
also developing applied technologies in fields such as business process
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