Gerhard Schweitzer

Prof. em. Dr. Gerhard Schweitzer

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Professor emeritus

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Organisations Professor Emeritus at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
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Gerhard Schweitzer has been employed at the ETH Zurich since April 1978. He was Associate Professor and Full Professor of Mechanics and has been Full Professor of Robotics, beginning in 1989. The emphasis of his research work was on the field of mechatronics, especially interactive robots and contact-free magnetic bearings. He retired in April 2002.



Prof. Schweitzer was born on March 23, 1937 in Freiburg, Germany. He studied mechanical engineering and received his doctorate from the TH in Stuttgart. He completed habilitation requirements in mechanics at the TU Munich in 1974. Before coming to the ETH, he was involved in research and teaching for 16 years at several institutions, among which were the Institute for Control Technology at the German Test Institute for Aerospece Establishment DLR in Oberpaffenhofen, the NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, (inertial navigation and satellite dynamics) and the TH Stuttgart and the TU Munich under Professor Magnus (dynamics and control technology). At the ETH he was one of the founders of the Mechatronic Group in 1984, the Neuro Informatics Group in 1988, the International Center for Magnetic Bearings in 1991 and Nanorobotics. He was president of the Association of ETH Professors and head of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.



Prof. Schweitzer was visiting professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics of Stanford University, at the Universities of Campinas and Florianopolis, Brazil, and at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld.

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