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.