About me

I research sustainability transformations, policy-making in the Anthropocene and digitalization, focusing on urban contexts. I work as a lecturer at the at the Institute Urban Landscape of the ZHAW (Zürich University of Applied Sciences), where I get to teach policy and data science for budding architects.

From 2021 to 2025, I worked at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich where I led the sustainability.discourses project. At UZH, I also co-led the DSI community sustainability, a community of UZH researchers working on sustainable digitalization.

My expertise as a researcher lies in connecting my scientific knowledge of sustainability, digitalization, governance and policy to innovative computational social science skills. I love to use Natural Language Processing, Bayesian Regression Modeling and Network Analysis in applied research. In the best case, this happens in combination with qualitative perspectives in an interdisciplinary team.

I obtained my (summa cum laude) PhD degree in Political Science from the University of Bern in 2019. I had the privilege to visit the Stockholm Resilience Centre as a SNF-funded visiting researcher for four months in 2019. I was part of the 2019-2021 Robert Bosch postdoc academy for transformational leadership, which gathers outstanding researchers working on inter- and transdisciplinary topics. I taught and supervised students at the University of Bern and Zürich.

Between 2019 and 2021, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (researching wetlands governance) and WSL, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (research sufficiency policy in rural regions).

Besides research, I am first and foremost a father of three children. This also means that I work part-time.

I also played in a band for a long time, still like to make noise sometimes, and am a passionate bikepacker and micro-adventurer. From 2020-2026 I served as member/ president of the board for the bike messenger cooperative Veloblitz. You’ll still find me on the bike working as a messenger from time to time.