Jean-Marc Piveteau, President

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Jean-Marc Piveteau is President of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. He was born in 1961 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Jean-Marc Piveteau studied Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), gaining his PhD in 1987. He was then awarded a research grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1988/1989 and was invited to the IHES (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques) in Paris, France. From 1989 to 1991, he worked at the ETH, Zurich, first as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Mathematical Research (Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik, FIM), then as a Lecturer.

From 1991 to 1993, Jean-Marc Piveteau worked as a Research Engineer at Ascom Tech AG in Solothurn, Switzerland, where he led various projects in the field of telecommunications security. He then joined UBS AG (formerly Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, SBG). From 1993 to 1995, he was a Researcher at Ubilab, the UBS research laboratory in Zurich. Here, he led a joint project in cooperation with the ETH Zurich which aimed to develop new schemes for secure payment systems. In 1995, he moved to the section responsible for internet payment services. Here, he implemented the first mobile banking solution at UBS. He was also Project Manager for the implementation of smartcard-based e-banking authentication. In 1999, he was promoted to the positions of Director and Head of the E-Commerce and Solutions section.

In 2001, Jean-Marc Piveteau was appointed Professor of Internet Technology at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil (HSR). He was involved in all four areas of the University’s activities: teaching, continuing education, research and development, and services. Together with the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen (FHS St. Gallen), he developed two continuing education programmes in e-business technology and technology-based business organisation. He implemented various e-commerce projects together with partners from industry, such as UBS and Crealogix. In 2002, he became Head of the Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA) at the HSR. In 2004, Jean-Marc Piveteau was appointed Vice-Rector and Member of the Executive Board at the HSR. He was responsible for study programmes and for continuing education. In addition to these duties, he led various projects, including the Swiss project to introduce and develop the joint “Master of Science in Engineering” (MSE) for all Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences.

Jean-Marc Piveteau is the author and co-author of scientific publications on mathematics and information security.