Welcome to the Faculty of Informatics

Informatics is a wonderfully exciting discipline, by now pervasive in all other intellectual domains. It investigates fundamental questions such as what is information? Knowledge? Intelligence? It attempts to create systematic approaches to problem solving, communication, and collaboration to enhance human capabilities. Informatics rather than Computer Science emphasizes the importance of information and automation, which is much more than the computer as a device.

The faculty of informatics is young - it was established in 2004 - but it has already gained an international reputation as a high quality research and education center in Switzerland. It currently hosts around 100 researchers and 240 students from many parts of the world and is engaged in many national and international research projects. It offers a full length curriculum that includes bachelor, master and PhD programs. The language of instruction is English but in the halls you hear many languages spoken. The faculty continues to grow while keeping an enthusiastic and exciting environment in which students at all levels work together and with professors on different projects.

The ability of managing the information in its different forms and quantities is the core of the contemporary society that scientist call the network or the information society. Informatics offers enormous opportunities of exciting careers in the current and the future society, and opens the opportunity to face fundamental challenges with a potentially enormous impact on economy, business, society and human life.

Experts of Informatics will play prominent roles in our society, and we hope to see our students part of the future human development.

Mauro Pezzè
Dean of the Faculty of Informatics