Biography

In 2023, after almost 15 years in academy, I started to work as head of the data analysis unit of Statistik Aargau. I’m also a Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Global Environmental Psychology (GEP).

I previously worked as a researcher at the University of Bern. The overarching focus of my research was to better understand the factors that encourage sustainable and particularly eco-friendly lifestyles. This interest guided my career path, on which I embarked with a Masters degree in Psychology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zürich. I then completed a PhD at the University of Exeter in which I focused on climate change perceptions and communication. After receiving my PhD, I was working at the Department of Consumer Behavior at the University of Bern. Between June 2015 and September 2016 I was based as a visiting researcher (funded by an early post-doc mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation) at Cardiff University (Understanding Risk Group). Between January 2017 and January 2023 I was a lecturer in sustainable behaviour at the University of Bern.

Some popular science articles (in German) can be found here and here.