Work Experience
Since 2017 Member of the Executive Board of Agroscope & Head of the Strategic Research Division on Sustainability Assessment and Agricultural Management
2015‐2016 Researcher at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Department of Socio‐Economic Sciences, Frick, Switzerland.
2014‐2015 Head of the Competence Center for Methods, German Institute for Development Evaluation, Bonn, Germany.
2013-2014 Researcher at the Zentrum für wirtschaftspolitische Forschung, Applied University Chur, Switzerland.
2007‐2013 ETH Zurich, Agri‐Food and Agri‐Environmental Economics. As Research Assistant, Doctoral Student and Postdoc
Memberships in panels, boards, and institutional responsibilities
2024 Co-Organizer of the 187th EAAE-Seminar "Food System Transformation - the role of research", joint FiBL & Agroscope event, Frick, Switzerland.
Since 2023 Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Since 2023 Member of the Advisory Board Suckler Cow Swiss (Fachbeirat Mutterkuh Schweiz)
2022 Guest Editor for Q Open for the Special Issue "Evidence-Based Agricultural and Food Policy - Role of Research for Policy Making" https://academic.oup.com/qopen/issue/3/3
Since 2020 President of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (board member since 2017)
2020 Guest Editor for the European Review of Agricultural Economics for the Special Issue "Farm Income in European Agriculture" https://academic.oup.com/erae/issue/48/2
2019 Organizer of the 171th EAAE-Seminar “Measuring and Evaluating farm income and well-being of farm families in Europe”, joint ETH & Agroscope event, Ettenhausen, Switzerland.
Since 2018 Board member of the external advisory board of the Swiss initiative “Charta Digitalisation”
2018-2025 Head of the external advisory board of the Swiss initiative “Charta Digitalisation”
Since 2018 Organizer of the Annual Agricultural Economics Conference at Agroscope
Since 2018 Co-Organization of the Seminar Series 'Agroeconet'
2017-2020 Member of the executive committee Profi-Lait
Education
2013 Diploma of Advanced Studies in Applied Statistics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2012 Doctorate in Agricultural Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
2010 Master Degree in Agricultural Sciences (Major Agricultural Economics), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Business School Diploma, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Bachelor Degree in Agricultural Science, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany