Prof. em. Dr. Hans Rudolf Heinimann

Prof. em. Dr. Hans Rudolf Heinimann

Professor Emeritus at the Department of Environmental Systems Science

ETH Zürich

Inst. f. Terrestrische Oekosysteme

CHN F 73.2

Universitätstrasse 16

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

Prof. Hans Rudolf Heinimann

Hans Rudolf Heinimann is a full Professor of Land Use Engineering at ETH Zürich (1991-present). He started office as a faculty member with the former Department of Forest and Wood Research of ETH, where he was promoted to full professor in 1997. He was a visiting professor at the Forest Engineering Department of Oregon State University (1999 to 2000), USA; at the University of Tokyo (summer 2009), Japan, Faculty of Agriculture, and at the Australian National University in 2013, where he was with the Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching (CHELT). From 2004 to 2009, he was a fellow at the Collegium Helveticum, a centre of advanced studies jointly sponsored by ETH and the University of Zurich focusing on cross-disciplinary research.

Heinimann has been actively involved in his international scientific community, actually coordinating the “Forest Operations Engineering and Management” division of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO). He had different positions in university bodies, such as head of department, director of studies, head of institute, head of faculty recruiting committees, etc. He was the Pro-rector for Education of ETH from 2007 to 2013 and is a founding member of the ETH Risk Centre, of which he was the chairman from 2011 to 2013. He is a member of several scientific and professional societies, e.g., a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).

His research aims at designing and continuously improving land use policies and practices that are environmentally sound, physically feasible, economically efficient and institutionally acceptable. Recent research work has been focusing on spatially explicit optimisation of land use activities, emerging concepts of land-use management (adaptive ecosystem management, precision land-use management), modelling environmental performance of different land-use systems, and risk management of natural hazards. At the Collegium Helveticum, he was involved in behavioural experiments, exploring the influence of emotions on risk behaviour.

 

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