Vita

Professional experience

since 2025: Head of the IT Consulting Team
EBP, Zurich, Switzerland
since 2025: Head of the BaslerFonds (innovation funding program)
EBP, Zurich, Switzerland
since 2024: Partner
EBP, Zurich, Switzerland
since 2024: External Lecturer in Geographic Information Systems and Analysis (part-time, two-hour lecture as part of a CAS)
ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland
since 2022: External Lecturer in Spatial Data Analytics (part-time, one-day lecture as part of a CAS)
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Olten, Switzerland
since 2018: Head of the Data Science Team
(and thus member of the management of the business department Information Technology)
EBP, Business Department Information Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
2013-2014: Research Assistant (part-time)
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
2010-2018: Project Leader, Data Scientist, and Senior Consultant
EBP, Business Department Information Technology, Zollikon/Zurich, Switzerland

since 2025: Member of the Advisory Board of the DIZH Public Data Lab
since 2025: Founder and Editor of Spatialists
since 2013: Co-Founder and Co-Lead of the GeoBeer event series (GIS-centric meetups)
2015-2025: Juror of the Prix Carto of the Swiss Society of Cartography (biennially)
2022-2023: External Advisor to an MSc thesis
Institute of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2020-2020: External Advisor to a BSc semester project
School of Engineering and Management (HEIG-VD), Yverdon, Switzerland
2019-2020: External Advisor to an MSc thesis
Institute of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2014-2018: Visiting Researcher
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Since May 2015: Member of the Geonet Project and the Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group.
2006-2010: PhD Studies
Institute of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Focus on geographic information science. Thesis: Extraction and Characterisation of Landforms from Digital Elevation Models: Fiat Parsing the Elevation Field.
2001-2006: MSc Studies
Institute of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Focus on geographic information science, remote sensing, and economic geography; minors in political science, cartography, geology, and mathematics. Thesis: Sensitivity of process models with respect to the spatial resolution of LiDAR-based elevation data.

2008-2008: GIS Consultant (on demand)
ASE and Spectraseis, both in Zurich, Switzerland
2006-2010: Research Assistant
Institute of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2005-2005: GIS and Remote Sensing Intern
Swissphoto Group, GeoAviation Solutions, Regensdorf, Switzerland
2004-2005: GIS and Remote Sensing Analyst (part-time)
EBP, Business Department Information Technology + GIS, Zollikon, Switzerland
2004-2004: GIS and Remote Sensing Intern
EBP Schweiz AG (EBP), Business Department Information Technology + GIS, Zollikon, Switzerland