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Brief of the academic career
- 2015–current Senior research assistant at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (Social Psychology)
- 2009–2015 Senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland (Psychological Process Modeling)
- 2008–2009 Post-doctoral scientist at the Arizona State University (USA) (Human Evolution & Social Change)
- 2006 PhD in Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 2000–2008 Scientific assistant at University of Zurich (Social Psychology) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Switzerland (Systemanalysis, Integrated Assessment and Modeling)
- 2000 MSc in Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1993–1996 Employed as geotechnical engineer at Heierli AG (Zurich, Switzerland)
- 1989 MSc in civil engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ), Switzerland
Research fields
- Behavior-change and habit development: Quantifying intervention effects on behaviors and mediating psychological and structural factors; optimal selection of behavior-change techniques
- Communication and cooperation: Problem solving and cooperation in groups with communication, virtual vs. face-to-face communication, collective actions, immoral cooperation
- Risk perception and heuristic decision making: Effects of trust and affective evaluations on decisions, and of communication forms and contents on trust and affect
- Methods for investigating individual change: Questionnaire-based data gathering, gathering of time-series data of psychological factors, mediation-analysis, time-series analysis
- Agent-based computer simulation: Development of agent-based models, and data-based system analysis and testing of these models
Areas of application
- Environmental psychology
- Health psychology
- Behavior-change campaigns
- Risk communication
- Co-design of innovations (usability, acceptance, motivation to use)
- Drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) in developing countries
- Climate change
Publications
- Google Scholar
- ResearchGate
- Database of the University of Zurich: