Research Interests
- Sustainable resource governance
- Social-ecological-systems
- Social-ecological systems frameworks
- Decision-making
- Environmental policy
- Climate change mitigation and adaptation
- Energy Transition
- Complex adaptive systems
- Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge
Since June 2024
Senior researcher (Marie Curie Fellow). Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, Switzerland, CH.
Inter- and transdisciplinary research project “Sustainable resource governance under pressure: How to govern trade-off situations under global change”.
Since February 1999
Lecturer. Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel, Witzenhausen, DE.
03/2024 — 06/2024
Nominated visiting scholar (Marie Curie Fellow). Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington, US.
02/2022 — 02/2024
Associated faculty and lecturer (Marie Curie Fellow). School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures and Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University, US.
Inter- and transdisciplinary research projects: (1) Sustainable resource governance under pressure: How to govern trade-off situations under global change. (2) Collaborative governance in a Citizen Science Project on wildlife monitoring.
08/2022 — 12/ 2022
Lecturer. School of Geography, Development & Environment, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, US.
04/2021 — 01/2022
Postdoctoral researcher. Wyss Academy for Nature, University of Bern, CH.
Developing the “Step-by-step approach for transdisciplinary research projects“. Transdisciplinary project “Local energy transition experiments for a low-carbon society“.
01/2019 — 12/2021
Pilot Programme and transdisciplinary project: “First alpine tourist destination substantially carbon neutral“.
12/2011 — 12/2021
Elected member of the commission “Processing and trade of certified organic food” (MKV). Bio Suisse, Basel, CH.
11/2019 — 10/2021
Postdoctoral researcher. Groups of “Environmental and Resource Economics” and “Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements” at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (ETH Zürich domain), CH.
Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects: Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Switzerland. Governance of the warning chain for Swiss severe weather events at the national, regional, and local levels.
08/2016 — 10/2019
PhD Researcher. Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, CH.
01/2016 — 12/2016
Research Assistant. Section for Federal Planning, Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE), Bern, CH.
Project manager to evaluate the national spatial planning processes.
07/2014 — 12/2015
Research Assistant. Section for Sustainable Development, Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE), Bern, CH.
Co-organizer and co-leader of a participatory process with 150 stakeholders to develop the Swiss Sustainable Development Strategy 2016-2019.
08/2014 — 01/2015
Lecturer. Faculty of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences, CH.
12/2006 — 12/2013
Lecturer and Research Assistant. Faculty of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Bern University of Applied Sciences, CH.
07/2005 — 11/2006
Teacher for nature conservation excursions with schools: BUND für Umwelt- und Naturschutz, Ravensburg, DE.
2004 — 2012
Five weeks per year in summer: management of an alpine dairy, Balisalp in the Bernese Oberland, CH. Fully responsible for cheese production, milking of dairy cows, and herding of cows, heifers, and pigs.
04/1997 — 07/1997
Research Assistant. Institute of Food Science, ETH, Zurich, CH.
03/1997
Employee. Chees dairy Dr. Oskar Flüeler, Alpnach Dorf, CH.
10/1995 — 12/1995
Research Assistant. Harvard Medical School Boston, Center for Blood Research, Department of Genetics, Boston, US.
08/1995 — 09/1995
Research Assistant. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, DE.
05/1995 — 07/1995
Research Assistant. Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE), Freiburg, DE.