Gerhard Schmitt is Director of the Singapore-ETH Centre in Singapore, Lead PI of the ETH Future Cities Responsive Cities Scenario, Lead PI of the Cooling Singapore Project and Professor Emeritus of Information Architecture at ETH Zurich. Gerhard Schmitt holds a Dipl.-Ing. and a Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University of Munich and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on urban climate design, big data informed urban design, urban metabolism, smart and responsive cities, simulation and visualization. He and his team developed and taught the first Massive Open Online Course Series on Future Cities, Liveable Cities, Smart Cities and Responsive Cities with more than 170’000 registrations.

From 2008-2017 he served as Senior Vice President ETH Global. From 1998-2008 he was Vice President for Planning and Logistics and Member of the Board of ETH Zurich, developing ETH’s strategy and planning in cooperation with the 16 scientific departments. From 1984 to 1988 he conducted CAAD research and teaching at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined ETH Zurich in 1988. He was Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Technical University of Denmark and at the Technical University of Delft. From 2004-2007 he chaired the Visiting Committee of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Gerhard Schmitt initiated and conceptualized the sustainable ETH Science City Campus in Zurich and received for this work the 2010 European Culture of Science award.