Current position
2020 – present
Project Manager, Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development (University of Zuerich/UZH), Zuerich. Managment and Scientific Coordination of an interdisciplinary, longitudinal cohort-study of Swiss children aged 5+ using social interventions.
Co-Lead of Work Package “Policy and Impact on Education”, Project LEARN funded by the EU’s Horizon Programme, Project name: Longitudinal Educational Achievements: Reducing iNequalities
Education
PhD – 2007
Economic and Social Sciences (Major: Organisational Behavior and Managment), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
MBAs – 2003
Business Administration and International Commerce (Specialisation: Marketing & Market Research), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
1999
Economics and Business Administration (Specialisation: Human Ressources), University Autónoma Madrid, Spain
Professional Experience
2018 – 2019
Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO), Department of Reproductive Health and Research, Geneva. Working on a portfolio of work to help develop the concept and measurement of maternal mortality and morbidity
2014 – 2018
Fellow of the Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology (APART), Austrian Academy of Science; awarded SNF Senior Mobility Grant, SNF
Demography Department, UC Berkeley, Academic Host: Prof. Jennifer-Johnson Hanks
Research areas: Human decision-making and uncertainty; reproductive behavior; responses to employment uncertainty; factors in well-being.
2016. Founder and chair of the “Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Teaching (OFIT)” Series in the Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of California, Berkeley – sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Association (HSSA) and the Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA).
2017. Vice Chair of the “Program for Teaching Opportunities” (PTOP), at the University of California, Berkeley – sponsored by the Berkeley Postdoc Association (BPA) and the Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA).
2017 (Spring). Instructor at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute, UC Berkeley, and at the Pre-Collegiate Studies Institute at Stanford University.
2011 – 2014
Post-doc
Swiss National Competence Centre in Research
NCCR LIVES “Overcoming Vulnerability: Life Course Perspectives,” University of Lausanne, Switzerland, https://www.lives-nccr.ch/en
2013
Post-doc
FP7 Project “Families And Societies: Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations” (directed by University of Stockholm), University of Lausanne, Switzerland, http://www.familiesandsocieties.eu/
2011 – 2014
Lecturer and Teaching Assistant
Life Course and Social Inequalities Center, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2008 – 2010
Post-doc and Scientific Coordinator
University of Lausanne, NCCR LIVES
2010 – 2013
Research Associate
Unit of Socio-Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2005
Research Assistant
Public Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
2004 – 2007
Pre-doc
Vienna Career Panel Project (https://www.wu.ac.at/en/vicapp/), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Other Experience
Since 2008
Grant Writing and Project Services
University of Lausanne, NCCR LIVES, Consortium Project ‘FamiliesAndSocieties’, SNF and OeAW
2007 – 2008
Research Consultant
HealthCare, GfK Austria, Vienna, Austria
2005 – 2006
Policy Fellow
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Austrian Ministry of Health and Women, Department of International and EU Affairs, Women and Equality Unit, New York and Vienna, US and Austria
2004
Project Services
Logistics and Personnel Department, Novartis Pharma Ltd, Vienna, Austria
2004
Consultant Services
Project Office Management in Finance (Basel II)
Accenture Ltd, Vienna, Austria
2003
International Online-Press Reviewer
Austrian Control Bank OEKB, Vienna, Austria
2001
Volunteer
Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Copenhagen, Denmark