Module responsibles
The module leaders are responsible for the concept, content and implementation of the modules. They also teach in the modules. Their expertise includes theoretical basics, application and teaching. Together with the other lecturers they guarantee high-quality teaching that is appropriate for the target audience.
ETH Zürich
Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control
Programme Delegate / Academic Director
MAS I CAS ETH in Future Transport Systems
Module Leader CAS Technology Potentials: Powertrain/Vehicle Technology
Competences for MAS|CAS
- Focus: modelling, control, regulation and optimisation of drive systems
- In MAS: lecturer in module TP1 Technology potentials: powertrain and vehicle technology and energy carriers
"As a member of the MAS academic management, it is my concern to enable an objective discussion on mobility topics by conveying the scientific basics. Based on this, demonstrating modern tools for solving optimisation problems in practice is an important contribution of the MAS."
ETH Zürich
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Professor of Geoinformation Engineering
Module Leader MAS I CAS ETH in Future Transport Systems: Potentials of Spatial Information and Communication Technologies
Competences for MAS|CAS
- Focus: mobile GIS and location-based services; spatio-temporal analyses; user aspects
- In MAS: lecturer/module responsibility Technology Potentials: Potentials of Spatial Information and Communication Technologies
"My motivation for the MAS: transfer research concepts and applications into practice."
FHNW
Professor für Mobilität und Verkehr
ERVE&CO – Erath-Rusterholz, van Eggermond & co, Basel, CEO
Competences for MAS|CAS:
Dr Alexander Erath is co-founder and CEO of Erveco, currently based in Switzerland. He is also a principal investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) of the Singapore-ETH Centre, where he is responsible for the Engaging Mobility group. His main research interests are surveying and modelling travel behaviour such as quantifying the impact of the built environment on mobility and transport demand modelling. His most recent research projects include gauging the potential for walking in Swiss agglomerations, measuring walkability in Singapore’s city centre based on pedestrian behaviour and the development of MATSim Singapore, an agent-based transport simulation model.
In the MAS:
- lecturer/module leader System Aspects 1: Mobility Systems, Dynamics and Future Developments
- lecturer/module leader System Aspects 2: Development and Evaluation of Mobility Scenarios
ETH Zürich
Lecturer at the Department of Environmental
System Sciences (D-USYS)
Ernst Basler and Partner
Partner Resources and Energy Policy Division
Competences for MAS|CAS:
In the MAS: module leader System Aspects 1 Mobility Systems, Dynamics and Future Developments and New Business Models 1 Framework Conditions and Mobility Behaviour.
"Technology for future mobility is ready - if we bring together innovative, mobile people from different disciplines. This can benefit all."
Dr sc. nat. ETH, dipl. phys. ETH, NDK Statistics
Focus: consumer behaviour and mobility, resource and energy policy and energy policy, economic-legal instruments
Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW)
Leiter Center for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, ZHAW School of Management and Law, Professor für Strategic Foresight, Innovations-
management und Entrepreneurship
Competences for MAS|CAS:
"I find the knowledge transfer and exchange on new mobility-related business models and potentials with innovation-enthusiastic professionals extremely inspiring. The future should not overtake us but wants to be shaped in an entrepreneurial way. "
- Dr oec. HSG, doctorate on strategic foresight at the chair of Strategic Management, Institute of Management
- Focus: R&D, teaching, consulting in the field of business innovation, entrepreneurial innovation, strategic innovation
- Head of Runway Start-up Incubator and start-up trainer for Innosuisse Entrepreneurship
- In the MAS: module leader New Business Models 2: Development of New Business Models for Sustainable Mobility
Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship
ETH Zurich: Lecturer at the Chair of Entrepreneurship
Member of academic management MAS|CAS ETH in Future Transport Systems
Module leader MAS|CAS ETH in Future Transport Systems: Implementation of New Strategies and Business Models for Sustainable Mobility
Competences for MAS|CAS:
Focus: strategic and operational management of technology-oriented companies. The focus of his work is on idea generation and business model and product innovation as well as on cooperative innovation and design thinking.
International research and teaching visits have taken Prof. Marxt to the University of New South Wales in Australia, as a visiting professor at Stanford University (USA) and as a professor at KTH Stockholm. He is active as an entrepreneur in two companies in Switzerland and coaches up to five start-up companies each year.
In the MAS: module responsibility NG-3 Implementation of new strategies and business models for sustainable mobility.
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe
Research Area Innovation Processes and Technology Consequences
Responsible for the module MAS|CAS ETH in Future Transport Systems: Fundamentals of Designing Innovation and Change Processes in Mobility Systems
Competences for the MAS|CAS
- Socio-technical change, foresight and technology assessment in the areas of mobility and energy
- Sustainable transitions in the mobility and energy sector
- Institutional / social change and technology development
- Digitalisation, car sharing and on-demand mobility
- Automated driving
- Diffusion paths for electric mobility
- Spatial perspectives in transformation research, technology assessment and foresight scenarios