• Head of Technology and Society Laboratory

anthropogenic resources, circularity, critical raw materials, environmental audits, material flow analysis, life cycle assessment, recycling, resource management, simulation games, sustainability transitions, WEEE

• Member of the Executive Board of the World Resources Forum Association (WRFA)
• Chair of the Scientific Committee of the WRF '23 conference, September 4-6 in Geneva;
• Member of the Editorial Board of the inter- and transdisciplinary journal GAIA (since 2021);
• Member of the UNECE Expert Group on Resource Classification (EGRC) (since 2017);
• Member and vice president of the Boarf of Trustees of the ESM Foundation (since 2017);
• Swiss National Delegate and member of the Management Committee of the COST Action Mining the European Anthroposphere (MINEA) (2016 - 2020);
• Member of the evaluation committee of the Zuger Wissenschaftspreis and Helmut Fischer Jugendpreis (2013 - 2016);
• Member of the Board of the Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (saguf) (since 2010);
• Member and lead auditor of the Swiss take-back systems of WEEE audit teams (1996 - 2019).

• University of St. Gallen (HSG), Contextual studies, "Energy Transition and Material Flows in a Net Zero Economy" (Master course), lecturer (since 2016)
• University of St. Gallen (HSG), Contextual studies, "Auf dem Weg zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft: Bedingungen, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen" (Bachelor course), lecturer (since 2018);
• ETH Zurich, Department of Materials, "Sustainable Materials Management: Concepts, Methods and Principles" (Master course), lecturer (since 2016);
• University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Energy and Environmental Technology, Waste Management & Recycling (Bachelor course), guest lecturer (since 2014).

• Horizon Europe project CE-RISE, work package leader (2023 - 2026)
• Horizon Europe project FutuRaM, work package leader (2022 - 2026)
• COST Action "Mining the European Anthroposphere", Swiss National Delegate (2016 - 2020, MINEA)
• NRP 73 project "Post-fossil cities", principal investigator (2018 - 2022)
• NRP 73 project OASES, co-applicant (2018 - 2022)
• EIT Raw Materials projects IRTC and IRTC-Business, participant (2018 - 2022)
• EIT Raw Materials projects SusCritMat and SusCritMOOC, participant (2017 - 2022)

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Professional Career

• Head of Technology & Society Laboratory, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), St. Gallen, Switzerland (since 2016)
• (Senior) Scientist, Technology and Society Laboratory, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), St. Gallen, Switzerland (1993 - 2016)
• Project manager at Elektrowatt Engineering Ltd., Zurich, Switzerland (1992 - 1993)
• Research assistant at the Institute of Toxicology, ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland (1988 - 1991)

Education

• Bachelor studies in philosophy and sociology at University of Zurich, Switzerland. Final Degree: Bachelor of Arts UZH (2004 - 2010).
• PhD studies in environmental sciences at the Institute of Toxicology of ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland. Final degree: Dr. sc. nat. ETH (1988 - 1992)
• Master studies in chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. Switzerland, with focus on organic, bio-organic and analytical chemistry. Final Degree: Master of Science ETH (1982 - 1988)

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