Areas of professional focus at CDE
- Course development and teaching at the Masters’ study programme ‘Sustainability Transformations’, the International Graduate School (IGS) North-South, and the Master and Bachelor Minor ‘Nachhaltige Entwicklung’ (holder of an award for outstanding performance in teaching, ALL)
- Fair and conflict-sensitive transcultural collaboration, decolonization of research
- (Mega-) Infrastructure projects: sustainability of investments, impacts, and local community-based initiatives
- Multi-stakeholder processes and social learning
- Serious games for sustainability
- Land governance: actor networks, institutions, land use changes in relation to war- and state-making
- Regional focus: Myanmar, China, Caucasus-South
Projects
- Course development and teaching at the Masters’ study programme ‘Sustainability Transformations’
- Course development and teaching at the International Graduate School (IGS) North-South (PhD students)
- Evaluating the Quality of Global Research Partnerships (project coordinator, concluded)
- Evaluation of Swiss Funding Instruments from the Perspective of North-South Research Collaborations (project co-coordinator, concluded)
- Fair and conflict sensitive research for sustainable development (project coordinator, concluded)
- Engaging with the giant – community-based initiatives and sustainable development around mega-infrastructure projects (project coordinator, concluded)
- Collective capabilities and action for sustainable agricultural intensification in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar (project coordinator, concluded)
Further professional interests
- Candidate for the CAS in Higher Education
- Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in economics and finances
- Arts for sustainability
- Conflict mitigation
- Gender equality
- International development cooperation
- China and its influence in the world – The challenges and possibilities for sustainable development
- Organisational development (processes, structure & quality management, change management, project management etc.)
Field experience
- Several years based in Myanmar
- Short stays (under 3 months): Tanzania, Thailand, China, Russia
Languages
German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (good), Spanish (basics), Burmese (basics)
