Lorenz Hilty is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Informatics of UZH. Until summer 2024, he held  the following roles:

• 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:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5020-0586

In his research, Lorenz Hilty explores the opportunities and risks of digital technologies for sustainable development. For recent projects and publications see:

Research page of the ISR Group
Publication page of the ISR Group

Until summer 2024, Lorenz Hilty has been teaching the following courses:

• 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

• 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
• 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

• Member of the University Council of the University of Constance (2019-2023) Constance University Council
• 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