Monika Simmler is Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Criminology. Next to being a co-founder of the Center for Law and Tech (CLT-HSG) she is a Director of the Institute for Law and Economics (ILE-HSG) and of the Competence Center for Criminal Law and Criminology (SK-HSG).
Her research focuses on topics at the interface between criminal law and technology. This includes questions of responsibility in human-machine interaction, cybercrime phenomena, as well as the broad field of digital investigations and of surveillance. Current larger projects include the regulation of e-evidence, the interplay between private and public surveillance, and a new book on Swiss surveillance law.
Before becoming a professor in St. Gallen, she completed her PhD in Zurich and worked for the public prosecutor’s office. As a visiting researcher she spent time in New York, Oxford, Vienna and Leiden. She completed her habilitation in 2025. For her work on «smart criminal justice» she received the University of St.Gallen’s Impact Award.