Defense Economics
The Chair of Defense Economics conducts research on national and international issues of defense economics from an institutional perspective. It aims to contribute to the security of state and society. Using quantitative simulation models, it analyzes possible vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures. From a technological and logistical perspective, it assesses the sustainability of military operations.
PD Dr. Marcus Keupp
From 1997-2002 studied Business Administration at the University of Mannheim and the Warwick Business School (England). After international activities in industry, as consultant and analyst until 2004 emigration to Switzerland. From 2004-2008 research associate at the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St.Gallen, at the same time doctorate at the University of St.Gallen (summa cum laude). From 2008-2012 Head of the Competence Center «Research Lab» with independent budget and personnel responsibility as well as acquisitions of third-party funds, at the same time cumulative habilitation at the University of St.Gallen. In 2013, appointment as private lecturer at the University of St.Gallen. 2012 Call to the University of Leeds (rejected). On 01.01.2013 appointment as lecturer in military economics at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich.
MSc Sébastien Gillard
Sébastien Gillard received a MSc in Physics from the University of Fribourg in 2016. He specialized himself in Computational Physics and Statistics. Currently, he is a PhD student in Information Systems at the University of Geneva and works as scientific assistant in Defense Economics at the Military Academy (MILAC) at ETH Zurich. Sébastien´s main research interests are in the Cyber-defense and the Cyber-threats Intelligence by analyzing of the underlying mechanisms and developing new methods in order to understand cooperation processes and improve these fields. In this vein, he has implemented econometrics models on data from cyber-threats information sharing platform and is currently developing a two layers agent-based model to study the cooperation and collective intelligence in these fields. He has published in the book: «The Security of Critical Infrastructures» in 2020, and has participated to the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) in 2022, awarded by a future publication in the Journal of Cybersecurity. Furthermore, Sébastien is broadly interested in Computer Science, Data Analysis, Evolutionary Game Theory and Collective Intelligence.
Dr. Fabian Muhly
Fabian Muhly focuses on the human factor of cyber risks as well as on innovative methods for knowledge transfer. Fabian Muhly holds a doctorate in criminology and degrees in economics and business administration.
MA Christoph Schulze
Christoph Schulze studied economics and philosophy in Jena, Bayreuth, Barcelona and Zurich. His main fields of study in economics were behavioral economics, new institutional economics (NIE), financial stability and financial regulation (especially macroprudential regulation). The main focus in philosophy was on political philosophy and philosophy of science (especially limits of economic theory and model building).