Curriculum Vitae

Work experience

since 2022

Zurich, Switzerland

Data analyst at Betty Bossi

Business owner data cloud and BI tools
Data analysis for the CRM division

2017 - 2022

Zurich, Switzerland

Research associate at ETH Zürich

Responsible for the maintenance of the chair's IT
Proof-reading of scientific papers
In charge of scientific articles in the last phase before publication
Organization of Workshops/Conferences
- ETH Workshop on Democracy 2018, 2019, 2020
- 6th Dialogue Event by ETH Risk Center (January 26, 2018)

Sep 2015 - Mar 2016

Munich, Germany

Teaching assistant at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Lectures for B.Sc. students: (i) "Mathematical Methods of Theoretical Physics" by Prof. Dr. Jan von Delft and (ii) "Mechanics" by PD Dr. Thomas Udem

Preparation for weekly exercise classes
Correction of exercises and exams
Presentation of examination review course

Jan 2015 - Apr 2015

Munich, Germany

Intern at KPMG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft AG

Financial Services | Financial Risk Management

Project support at the client's office
Preparation of Excel-sheets (portfolio analysis, conception of exposure add-on factors)
Execution of user acceptance tests

Sep 2014 - Dec 2014

Munich, Germany

Intern at KPMG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft AG

Financial Services | Strategy & Operations

Project support at the client's office
Preparation of Excel-sheets (controlling, billing, data analysis)
Preparation of PowerPoint-presentations
Extensive research

2011 - 2014

Munich, Germany

Fashion adviser and seller at Maximilian – Mode für Männer

Accommodation job

Customer advice and customization
Sale
Autonomous management of the store up to one week

Education

2017 - 2022

Zurich, Switzerland

Ph.D. in Economics at ETH Zürich

Chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy (supervision by Prof. Dr. Hans Gersbach)

The title of my thesis is Essays on opinion formation in politics. The focus of my research is on Network Science and Political Campaigns. My position is partially third-party funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and I am part of the "Towards Better Blueprints for Democracy" project.

2016 - 2017

Milan, Italy

Master Thesis in Theoretical Biophysics at Università degli Studi di Milano

Center for Complexity & Biosystems (supervision by Prof. Stefano Zapperi) | Grade: 1.0

I conducted research and wrote my thesis about "Statistical physics of lipid raft formation in cell membranes".

2015 - 2017

Munich, Germany

M. Sc. in Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Grade: 1.49

The focus of my studies:

Nonlinear Dynamics
Stochastic Processes
Advanced Statistical Physics

During summer 2015, I made a research project at the chair of Prof. Erwin Frey about "RASEP: Repelling Anti-symmetric Simple Exclusion Process". I wrote the master thesis supervised by Prof. Stefano Zapperi in Milan, Italy (more details are above).

2011 - 2014

Munich, Germany

B.Sc. in Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Grade: 2.36

I wrote my Bachelor thesis about "Edge Currents in Driven Systems of Non-interacting Lattice Fermions" supervised by Fabian Heidrich-Meisner.

Additional lectures at the faculty for economics at the LMU München

Basics of Economics
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Financial Economy
Game Theory

Publications

M. Hoferer, K. Mepham, A. Kekkonen, Affective polarization on Reddit, (work in progress).
M. Hoferer, H. Gersbach, Attractor model of political competition, (submitted to journal).
M. Hoferer, L. Böttcher, H. J. Herrmann, H .Gersbach, The impact of technologies in political campaigns, Physica A, 538, 122795 (2020), arXiv:1909.07644.
M. Hoferer, S. Bonfanti, A. Taloni, C. A. M. La Porta, S. Zapperi, Protein driven lipid domain nucleation in biological membranes, Phys. Rev. E 100, 042410 (2019), arXiv:1909.08659.

Conferences / schools / talks

Talk at IC²S² 2021, online - 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science

The International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) is the premier annual meeting bringing together researchers from different disciplines interested in using computational and data-intensive methods to address societally relevant problems.

Talk about Affective polarization on Reddit: YouTube

Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2019

Sessions and lectures organized by Princeton University, in cooperation with 11 other universities

Jun 16 to 29, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland

Invited talk in the Complex Systems seminar at Uppsala University

On Jan 22, 2019 about The activists model and its applications

International School on Computational Social Science and Complex Systems 2018

The school considers complex systems of social and economic origin by teaching and discussing concepts and topics of computational social science and econophysics. These are fields, where physicists, computer scientists, sociologists, and economists join efforts to understand the laws governing the complex system of human interactions.