Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Function
Scientific staff member
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
WSL Birmensdorf Bi HV F 08
since 2007
Research fellow at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape (WSL) and lecturer at the Institute for Political Science, University of Zurich (IPZ)
2005-2007
Institute for Political Science at University of Zürich.
2002-2004
Assistant at the Institute for Political Science at University of St.Gallen
2002
Dissertation at the University of St.Gallen concerning decision anomalies regarding referendums on environmental policies
2000-2001
Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley und San Diego
1996-1999
Scientific collaborator at the Institute for Economics and the Environment at the University of St.Galle
1990-1995
Studied Economics and Ecological Economics at the University of St.Gallen
Collaborating in scientific research projects
since 2013
What Determines Local Growth Management Regulation and How Does It Relate to Urban Sprawl? A Municipal Level Spatial Econometric Analysis (Project Leader, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
SPROIL - Controlling urban sprawl to limit soil consumption (within the NFP68 "Protection of Soil as a Resource", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation).
2011-2013
SWIC - The Swiss Contribution to the Establishment of an International Regime on Biodiversity
2011-2013
SWIC - Swiss contribution to the international regime on Biodiversity
2009-2011
Module “Evaluation of the grazing subsidies” as a part of the integrated research project “AlpFUTUR” on the future of alpine pastures in Switzerland.
2009-2010
Survey on the structure of civil-society organisations in rural Switzerland.
2004-2006 and 2007-2008
Welfare state, political participation and voluntary work in Swiss municipalities.
2007-2008
Decision-making in the Swiss Parliament.
2003-2006
The estimation of ideological positions of politicians and parties
2003-2006
The influence of national decision-making procedures on the international negotiations about the European Constitution.
2003
Voter turnout at referendums.