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Prof. Dr. Walter Zimmerli

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Humboldt University Berlin
Philosophy

External Senior Fellow (FELSA)
May 2022 – July 2022

E-Mail: zimmerli@b-tu.de

Last Update: 31.08.2022

Curriculum Vitae

Walther Ch. Zimmerli, philosopher, born 06.05.1945 in Zuerich, Honorary Professor Mind and Technology at Humboldt University Berlin; studied after a term at Yale College (New Haven, Conn,) philosophy, Germanistik and Anglistik as well as diverse other subjects at the University of Goettingen and the University of Zuerich where he completed both his PhD (1971) and his habilitation (1978) in philosophy. He was full professor of philosophy at Technical University of Braunschweig (1978-88), Universities of Bamberg and Erlangen-Nürnberg (1988-1996) as well as University of Marburg (1996-1999). From 1999 to 2002 he served as president of the private University of Witten/Herdecke gGmbH. In 1999 he was appointed member of the topmanagement of Volkswagen AG and Founding President of Volkswagen AutoUni as well as member of the Executive Board of Volkswagen Coaching GmbH. From 2007 to 2013 he served as president of Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus before becoming Endowed Friedrich Senior Professor at the Graduate School and 2016 Honorary Professor of Humboldt University in Berlin. Zimmerli who was awarded the Humboldt South Africa Research Award in 1996, an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Stellenbosch in 2002 and an Honorary Professorship by the University of Braunschweig in 2003, was 2017/18 EURIAS Senior Research Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum of University, ETH and ZHdK Zuerich, 2019 Visiting Fellow at the IWM Vienna and 2020-21 DSI-Fellow at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zuerich.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project