GSI - Digital technologies, Europe and International Relations

Students : Vinicius Marignac, Gautier Chardin, Hoi Ching Lee, Cho Yeung Wong, and Felicitas Murat

Hernâni Marques is a computational linguist, sociologist, and  neuroinformatician active in Switzerland. He is the spokesperson for the  CCC Switzerland (CCC-CH), a hacker organization from a civil society  between white and grey hat hacking. White hacking is done for private or  public interest with permission from the owner while grey hacking  revolves around finding vulnerabilities in a private or public system  without the previous consent and with a political goal. Furthermore, he  is a council member of the p≡p foundation which advocates privacy.  There, Hernâni Marques works on creating tools to technically restore  privacy. Moreover, he is politically committed to privacy, freedom of  expression, and access to information. In this podcast, Hernâni Marques  shares his job routine as well as his view on encryption, blockchain,  mass surveillance, and cybercrime. In the end, he provides some advice  for those interested in his field of work.

Students : Tsering Gonpa & Chun Yin Wong

Marcus  Michaelsen is a researcher at LSTS research Group at Vrije University7  in Brussels. His research focuses on the intersection of Digital  Technologies, Human Rights Activism and Authoritarianism. As represented  in his current project "Digiact", funded by an EU fellowship, he  investigates digital surveillance and transnational repression against  exiled dissidents and Human Right defenders.

Students : Sarah Hammoud, Al Hamadani Mohammed, Hans Huber, Alakhras Mohamad

Frédéric Bourla est le chef de la division analytique à SCRT. SCRT  est spécialisé dans la sécurité des systèmes d’information ainsi que le  hacking éthique (le hacking non malveillant). L’entreprise propose  notamment des audits intrusifs, des conseils en défense informatique et  de l'intégration de solutions spécialisées. SCRT est basée à Morges.

Students : Monica Vianna Nunes Da Silva, Caroline Vechiato Guimaraes, Teimo Isarasakdatikul and Eren Sirmen

ARTMYN is a Swiss start-up based in Lausanne that revolutionizing the  way art is experienced, promoted and authenticated. Specialized in  artwork digitalization, they developed a 5D scanner - an imaging  technique combining thousands of photographs captured through different  light sources, designed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in  Lausanne. Working with the biggest institutions in the Art industry,  Artmyn is setting new standards in the way Fine Art can be experienced  and promoted on screen, via a web browser, accessible from any mobile  device. The goal of the company is to « transform Artmyn in a new  standard and make our plateforme as a Spotify or Itunes of Art, a field  that hasn’t lived his transition into the digital » (Alexandre Catsicas  co founder Artmyn).

Students : Christian Favre, Yll Shatri & Loïc Nötzel

Chrys Lissy a 28 ans, et habite à Neuchâtel. Après des études  dans l’ingénierie de l’informatique et des systèmes de communication  à la Haute école ARC à Neuchâtel, il commence sa carrière en tant  que développeur pour Syslog, société fribourgeoise de systèmes  d’informations pour entreprises. En parallèle, il exerce à son compte  une activité de conseil dans de multiples domaines de l’informatique et  développe pour lui programmes et applications mobiles. Il travaille  actuellement comme développeur web “full stack” pour la plateforme de  e-commerce suisse alloboissons.ch, active dans la vente de boissons avec  et sans alcool aux entreprises et aux particuliers. Le groupe  Alloboissons basé dans le canton de Fribourg est composé du site de  vente en ligne éponyme, de la Halle Aux Boissons, chaine régionale de  magasins de vente directe et au détail ainsi que de Les Vins Jules Gex,  actif dans le négoce et l’importation de vins et spiritueux.

Students : Kamila Ciok, Olha Kropyva, Leonie Liechti

Fayez Alrafeea is a PhD Candidate at the Information Systems Center  of the University of Geneva. He is about to finish his PhD and is  interested in how fake news affect Social Media and how software are  dealing with misinformation. This is why he helped develop the project  “Certify”2 to combat fake news, disinformation and misinformation.

Students : Frank Nydegger, Antonela Bardhoku, Chantal Fabienne Bauhofer, Lynn Morgane Plüss

From 1990 to 1996 Marcel Zumbühl studied Artificial Intelligence,  Mathematics and Business Administration at the University of Bern. After  his studies, he worked for Accenture, before becoming CIO and later CSO  of Swisscom. From 2015 to 2018 he worked for Credit Suisse, first as  CISO for Digital Private Banking and later as Global Head of Security  Control Steering. Since 2018 he has been working for Swiss Post Group.  He has also been active as a lecturer at the ETH Zürich since 2009 and  at the University of Lucerne since 2021. Furthermore, since 2019 he has  been a board member of Swiss Cyber experts and since 2020, he has been  co-president of the Information Security Society Switzerland.