Prof. Dr. Matthias Stürmer

Head of the Institute for Public Sector Transformation

Member of the management team of the Business School at BFH

Leading the institute with over 60 staff members and 4 research groups

Research and consulting services in the areas below

Lectures in the Master’s programs in Digital Business Administration and Circular Innovation and Sustainability

Co-Director of the CAS in Public Procurement

Speaker and moderator at conferences, workshops, and other events organized by the Institute

Various association mandates and participation in committees (see “Memberships”)

Always open and curious about concrete ideas, innovative initiatives, impactful projects, inspiring people, and much more

Master Digital Government

Master Digital Business Administration

Master Circular Innovation and Sustainability

Bachelor Digital Business & AI

CAS Public Procurement and CAS Advanced Public Procurement

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Digital Sustainability, Digital Sovereignty

Open Source Technologies, Open Source Licenses

Public Procurement of Information Technology

Digital Sustainability

Digital Sovereignty

Open Source Software

Open Government Data

Politics and Technology, Digital Regulations

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Stürmer, M. (2024). Open Source Studie Schweiz 2024 (I. P. Sector Transformation, Ed.; Vol. 5). Berner Fachhochschule, CH Open, swissICT. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.22018

Stürmer, M. (2023). Open Source Business-Potenzial: Ein Blick auf Odoo’s Open Core Modell. In SocietyByte - Wissenschaftsmagazin der Berner Fachhochschule. Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21380

Stürmer, M. (2024). Technologische Perspektive der digitalen Souveränität: Blick auf die Schweiz, internationale Trends sowie Empfehlungen für die “Strategie Digitale Souveränität der Schweiz”: Bericht zuhanden des Eidgenössischen Departements für auswärtige Angelegenheiten (EDA). Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft, Public Sector Transformation. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.22222

Stürmer, M. (2023). Open by default als Gesetz. In SocietyByte – Wissenschaftsmagazin der Berner Fachhochschule. Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20095

Stürmer, M. (2024). Open Source Software als Ausweg aus dem Vendor Lock-in. In Swiss IT Magazine (Issues 7–8). Swiss IT Media. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.22331

Terán, L., Vaca, C., Riofrio, D., & Stürmer, M. (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue on Smart Government Development and Applications. In Digital Government: Research and Practice (Vol. 5, Issue 3). ACM. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11572

Stürmer, M., Tiede, M. A., Nussbaumer, J. M., & Wäspi, F. (2023). On Digital Sustainability and Digital Public Goods (P. Jankowski, A. Höfner, M. L. Hoffmann, F. Rhode, R. Rehak, & J. Graf, Eds.). Technische Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19678

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Stürmer, M. (2022). Digitale Souveränität: mehr als ein Hype. In SocietyByte - Wissenschaftsmagazin der Berner Fachhochschule. Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.17269

Niklaus, J., Stürmer, M., & Chalkidis, I. (2022). An empirical study on cross-x transfer for legal judgment prediction. Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19687

T.Y.S.S, S., Baumgartner, N., Stürmer, M., Grabmair, M., & Niklaus, J. (2024). Towards Explainability and Fairness in Swiss Judgement Prediction: Benchmarking on a Multilingual Dataset. Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING). https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.22327

Brugger, T., Stürmer, M., & Niklaus, J. (2023). MultiLegalSBD: A Multilingual Legal Sentence Boundary Detection Dataset. 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law - ICAIL. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19715

Rolshoven, L. S., Rasiah Vishvaksenan, Brügger Bose Srinanda, Stürmer, M., & Niklaus, J. (2024). Unlocking Legal Knowledge: A Multilingual Dataset for Judicial
Summarization in Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11547

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Stern Ronja, Kawamura Ken, Stürmer, M., Chalkidis Ilias, & Niklaus, J. (2024). Breaking the Manual Annotation Bottleneck: Creating a Comprehensive
Legal Case Criticality Dataset through Semi-Automated Labeling. Ithaca, NY. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11453

Nyffenegger, A., Stürmer, M., & Niklaus, J. (2024). Anonymity at Risk? Assessing Re-Identification Capabilities of Large Language Models in Court Decisions. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.22330

Niklaus, J., Mamié, R., Stürmer, M., Brunner, D., & Gygli, M. (2023). Automatic Anonymization of Swiss Federal Supreme Court Rulings. Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.22003

Stürmer, M., Koch, R., & Gygli, M. (2024). Der “AI Act” aus wissen­schaft­licher Sicht. In Inside It. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/37369

Stürmer, M., Tiede, M. A., Nussbaumer, J. M., & Wäspi, F. (2023). Warum digitaler und nachhaltiger Wandel gleichzeitig stattfinden muss. In SocietyByte – Wissenschaftsmagazin der Berner Fachhochschule. Berner Fachhochschule, Wirtschaft. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.20086

Christen, R., Shaitarova, A., Stürmer, M., & Niklaus, J. (2024). Resolving Legalese: A Multilingual Exploration of Negation Scope Resolution in Legal Documents. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2309.08695

Niklaus, J., Chalkidis, I., & Stürmer, M. (2021). Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark (N. Aletras, I. Androutsopoulos, L. Barrett, C. Goanta, & D. Preotiuc-Pietro, Eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19665

Since 2020 Member of the Destination Council for Tourism in Bern (Bern Welcome)

Since 2016 President of the Association Digital Impact Network

Since 2009 Managing Directory of Parldigi, the Parliamentary Group for Digital Sustainability

Since 2006 Member of the Board of the Association CH Open (President since 2020)

2011 - 2019 Member of the City Council of Bern