Joerg Schweizer, is an Electrical Engineer, graduated 1993 at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany with specialization in automatic control. In 1994 he completed a Masters of Engineering Science at the University College Dublin, Ireland . He received his PhD from the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
In 2003 he joint the the Civil Engineering Department (DICAM) of the University of Bologna as a Post Doc in a Marie Curie Project . In 2006 he became a full time researcher and lecturer. Joerg Schweizer is member of the executive board of the Advanced Transit Association (ATRA).