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Ulrich Weidmann has been Full Professor of Transport Systems at ETH Zurich since June 2004, and from 2013 until the end of 2015 he was Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-​BAUG). Since January 2016, he has been a member of the Executive Board of ETH Zurich as Vice President for Infrastructure.After studying Civil Engineering at ETH Zurich, Ulrich Weidmann worked as a doctoral student at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT). From 1994 until 2004, he was responsible for the services on the suburban (S-​Bahn) and regional networks of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). As Head of Engineering for the infrastructure division at SBB, he managed railway technology, architecture, diagnostic technology and innovation management.  Ulrich Weidmann’s research has focused on the following areas: the design of passenger transport systems, the integration of rail freight transport systems in logistic chains, and the efficiency and automation of railway networks and track construction.As Vice President for Infrastructure, he leads the Executive Board division of the same name in the function of a Chief Operating Officer. Core competencies of the division are procurement, renewal and maintenance of needs-​based infrastructures, as well as customer-​oriented services for teaching, research, transfer, outreach and administration.