David Basin wins Dandelion Award 2024
The Dandelion Award is regularly given to ETH professors who have shown outstanding commitment to promoting entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond. This year, Professor David Basin was honored for his achievements. Congratulations!
This year, the Dandelion award goes to Professor David Basin. Each year, ETH students and researchers get the opportunity to nominate professors who demonstrate exceptional commitment and leadership in fostering entrepreneurship. Based on the nominations, a jury consisting of representatives of relevant ETH institutions, such as ETH Entrepreneur Club, ETH juniors, Student Project House, and AVETH picks the winners. One professor from each department is honoured, along with a special award for championing interdisciplinary collaboration and entrepreneurship. The Dandelion Awards are presented by the ETH AI Center, ETH Entrepreneurship group, ETH Entrepreneur Club and Talent Kick.
The award winner
David Basin has been Full Professor at ETH Zurich since 2003 and holds the chair for Information Security within the Institute of Information Security at the Department of Computer Science.
He received his bachelors degree in mathematics from Reed College in 1984, his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1989, and his Habilitation from the University of Saarbrücken in 1996. His appointments include a postdoctoral position at the University of Edinburgh (1990-1991), and afterwards he led a subgroup, within the programming logics research group, at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (1992-1997). From 1997-2002 he was a Full Professor at the University of Freiburg in Germany.
His research area is Information Security, in particular methods and tools for building secure and reliable systems. He is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security and of Springer-Verlag's book series on Information Security and Cryptography. He is also the founding director of ZISC, the Zurich Information Security Center, which he led from 2003-2011. He was named Fellow of the ACM in 2018 for his contributions to Information Security and Formal Methods.