Welcome to the
Chair of Systems Design
Welcome to the legacy webpage of the Chair of Systems Design (2004-2025).
In October 2004, Frank Schweitzer established the Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zürich. Our activities ended because of his retirement on 31 January 2025. More information can be found under Final Symposium and in an Interview on the portal of the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics.
Over a period of 20 years, more than 70 researchers from various disciplines (statistical physics, applied mathematics, computer science, political science and economics) have been working with us. 30 of them obtained their doctoral degree. More information about our collaborators can be found under Team and Theses.
Our research can be best described as data driven modelling of complex systems with particular emphasis on social, socio-technical, and socio-economic systems. More information can be found under About us, Research, Publications and Projects. The publication list will be regularly updated as pending papers are published.
Frank Schweitzer remains at ETH Zurich as a Professor emeritus (Prof. em.) and can still be reached via his email address “@ethz.ch”. A small team with Dr. Luca Verginer, Dr. Giona Casiraghi and Dr. Georges Andres will continue at ETH Zürich to work on pharmaceutical supply chain resilience.

Empirical networks are sparse: Enhancing multiedge models with zero-inflation
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Podcast on Drug Shortage Mitigation
Explore our latest research on pharmaceutical supply chain resilience in an …
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The Complexity of Social and Economic Systems: From Models to Measures
Final Workshop Chair of Systems Design
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Tracing Opioids Across the US: A High-Resolution Pharmaceutical Distribution Dataset
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Processing Large-Scale Archival Records: The Case of the Swiss Parliamentary Records
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Disentangling the Timescales of a Complex System: A Bayesian Approach to Temporal Network Analysis
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Talk: Rank Dynamics
Exploring rankings across systems, understanding adaptability and robustness.
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Talk: Large Language Models in the Age of Misinformation
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Paper on Supply Chain Resilience Published in Science Advances
Our research on pharmaceutical supply chain resilience has been published in …
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