Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hurni has been a Full Professor at the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation of ETH Zurich since October 2003. As an assistant at the Institute of Cartography, he implemented a digital cartographic information system for teaching and research purposes. In 1994 he took a position at the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo in Wabern. As project leader for Computer-assisted Cartography, he worked mainly on implementing an interactive graphics system for the digital processing of national maps, which replaced the former analogous map production. Hurni’s research emphasizes cartographic data models and tools for the production of printed and multimedia maps. He is the managing editor-in-chief of the “Atlas of Switzerland”, the Swiss national atlas.