Olivier Verscheure holds a PhD in computer science from the EPFL (1999).
He was Lab Program Director and Senior Research Manager at IBM Research Ireland from 2010 to 2016, and prior to this Research Manager and Senior Member of the Research Staff at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (1999 – 2010). He took over the Executive Director position of the SDSC in 2016.
He is also an expert in the Strategy Working Group on Data, Computing and Digital Research Infrastructures in the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) since 2019, member of the Executive Committee of Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT), an ETH Domain Strategic Focus Area (since 2017) and co-academic Director, Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS), Data Science and Management, HEC Lausanne and EPFL (since 2018).