Since 2007, Rolf Dornberger has been head of the Institute for Information Systems IWI at the School of Business HSW of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW. Additionally, since 2009, he has been a member of the R&D co-ordination board of the School of Business.

Since 2002, he has worked for the FHNW, respectively for its predecessor institution the University of Applied Sciences FH Solothurn, as a lecturer in undergraduate and graduate programmes teaching in the German and in the English languages, and – for several years – Deputy Programme Head Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology. He is lecturer in Business Information Technology and head of the competence centers New Trends & Innovation.

Before his professional activity at the FHNW, Rolf Dornberger worked at Swiss research and technology centers in the mechanical engineering-, energy-, airline- and software industry, and taught at various universities. His responsibilities included project management and management functions in the evaluation, research and develop-ment of new technologies in business information technology, computer science, and in engineering.

Rolf Dornberger studied aerospace engineering at the Universities of Stuttgart, Barcelona and Grenoble, and graduated with a PhD degree from the University of Stuttgart, in numerical methods for modelling and simulation. Besides, he took courses in economics at the Open University Hagen, Germany.

• "Optimization for Business Improvement" (formerly "Advanced Technologies Supporting Business Areas" and "Modelling, Simulation, Optimization"; Master of Science in Business Information Systems (in English); 2008 – present)
• "Foundations of Business Information Technology" (Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology (in English); 2015 – 2016)
• "Objektorientierte Programmierung" and/or "Programmierung mit Java" (Introduction and Advanced; Diplomstudiengang Wirtschaftsinformatik as well as Bachelor of Science in Wirtschaftsinformatik; 2002 – 2012)
• "Software-Engineering" (Introduction, Advanced, Specialization; Diplomstudiengang Wirtschaftsinformatik as well as Bachelor of Science in Wirtschaftsinformatik; 2002 – 2010)
• "Innovationsmanagement" (Diplomstudiengang Wirtschaftsinformatik as well as Bachelor of Science in Wirtschaftsinformatik; 2004 – 2010)
• "Web-Engineering" and/or "Internet and WWW" (Bachelor of Science in Wirtschaftsinformatik; 2006 – 2007)
• "Multimedia" (Introduction, Advanced; Diplomstudiengang Wirtschaftsinformatik; 2003 - 2006)

Projects are the basis for successful, applied teaching. Click here to see a list of Rolf Dornberger’s projects. To the IRF

• Yann Pochon, Rolf Dornberger, Vivienne Jia Zhong, and Safak Korkut, “Investigating the Democracy Behavior of Swarm Robots in the Case of a Best-of-n Selection,” presented at the 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2018), Bengaluru, India, 2018.
• Shama Baldi, Nina Maric, Rolf Dornberger, and Thomas Hann, “Pathfinding Optimization when Solving the Paparazzi Problem Comparing A* and Dijkstra’s Algorithm,” in 6th International Symposium on Computational and Business Intelligence (ISCBI 2018), Basel, Switzerland, 2018.
• Remo Ryter, Thomas Hanne, and Rolf Dornberger, “Effects of Noisy Multiobjective Test Functions Applied to Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms,” in 6th International Symposium on Computational and Business Intelligence (ISCBI 2018), Basel, Switzerland, 2018.
• Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, Soziale Roboter sollen Menschen unterstützen. 2018.
• Moritz Armingeon, Pleurat Komani, Trupti Zanwar, Safak Korkut, and Rolf Dornberger, “A Case Study: Assessing Effectiveness of the Augmented Reality Application in Augusta Raurica,” in The Power of AR and VR for Business, Manchester, 2018.