Areas of professional focus at CDE
- Issues of power relations and power dynamics in food system transformations
- Food system sustainability, transition and transformation
- Just transition principles and criteria
- Sustainable regional development in mountains
- Natural and cultural heritage in mountains
- Transdisciplinary research for sustainability transformations
Projects
- From farm to fork and beyond: a systemic approach for implementing the True Cost Accounting for Food (TCAF) in Switzerland
- Just transition: tackling inequalities on the way to a sustainable, healthy and climate-neutral food systems (JUST-FOOD)
- Leitung des UNESCO Chair "Natur- und Kulturerbe zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung von Berggebieten"
- Co-PI der Mountain Research Initiative
Field experience
Switzerland, Kenya, Finland, Brazil, Chile
Teaching
- "Nachhaltigkeit und Gerechtigkeit in Ernährungssystemen: Wie kann Wandel stattfinden?" Proseminar für Bachelor Students im Bachelor Minor Sustainable Development
- "Towards sustainable food systems – under-standing current crises to design the ways out" Lecture in the Master’s in Sustainability Transformations, Module Current Discourses
- "Food systems and their role in sustainability transformations" Lecture in the Online International Winter School on Sustainable Development for Bachelor’s and Master’s Students "Co-designing pathways for transformative change"
Languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian