# Srdjan Capkun

> Srdjan Capkun is a startup investor at ETH Zurich (Zürich). See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ETH Zurich](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eth-zurich)
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srdjan-%C4%8Dapkun-8919991/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/SrdjanCapkun

Srdjan Capkun (Srđan Čapkun) is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich and Director of the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC). He was born in Split, Croatia. He received his Dipl.Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science from the University of Split in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree inCommunication Systems from EPFL in 2004. Prior to joining ETH Zurich in 2006 he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Networked & Embedded Systems Laboratory (NESL), University of California Los Angeles and an Assistant Professor in the Informatics and Mathematical Modelling Department, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). His research interests are in system and network security. His focus areas are wireless security (in particular secure positioning), and system security where he focuses on trusted computing and blockchain technologies. He is a co-founder of 3db Access, a company focusing on secure distance measuement and proximity-based access control, and of Sound-Proof a spin-off focusing on usable on-line authentication. In 2016 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for a project on securing positioning in wireless networks. He is an ACM Fellow.

## About ETH Zurich

VC Fund · Zürich, Switzerland

ETH Zurich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics, and management university. It is an integral part of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain) that is directly subordinate to Switzerland's Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education, and Research.ETH Zurich is consistently rated among the topuniversities in the world. It is considered the best university in continental Europe by the Shanghai Ranking ARWU, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the QS World University Ranking. It is currently ranked 4th in Europe overall, and 8th best university in the world in engineering, science, and technology. Twenty-one Nobel Prizes have been awarded to students and professors of the institute in the past. The most famous of them is Albert Einstein in 1921 and the most recent is Richard F. Heck in 2010. It is a founding member of the IDEA League and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU); and a member of the CESAER network.ETH Zurich was founded by the Swiss Federal Government in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, serve as a national center of excellence in science and technology, and provide a hub for interaction between the scientific community and industry.

5 contacts available at ETH Zurich.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alessandro Butte | Lecturer and Senior Researcher | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alessandro-butte |
| Beatrice Mauro | Member of Advisory Boards | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beatrice-mauro |
| Emilio Frazzoli | Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emilio-frazzoli |
| Mariana Popescu | PhD Researcher | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mariana-popescu |
| Srdjan Capkun | Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/srdjan-capkun |

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