Areas of professional focus at CDE
- 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
- Role of research networks for sustainability transformations
Projects
- 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
- Pilotprojekt "Pärke als Förderer regionaler Kreisläufe? Die Bedeutung nachhaltig produzierter Nahrungsmittel und deren Wertschöpfung am Beispiel von SAC Hütten in Parkgebieten"
- Mercator Expedition "Transforming food systems - an exchange of concepts and methods between the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) and the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)"
- Enhancing transformative research for sustainable development: mutual learning within research networks
- Towards Food Sustainability: Reshaping the Coexistence of Different Food Systems in South America and Africa (FoodSAF)
Field experience
Switzerland, Finland, Brazil, Chile
Teaching
- "Gestaltung und Umsetzung von nationalen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien" seminar for master students at University of Bern (Co-lecturer with Prof. Dr. Thomas Breu)
- "Von globaler Partnerschaft zu lokaler Aktion: Politikwissen-scha(f)ft nachhaltige Gesellschaft" BA course at University of Basel (Guest lecturer in Dr. Rebecca Welge’s course)
- Food Systems and International Interlinkages. Guest lecture at Kalevan Lukio Highschool in Tampere, Finland
- "Transformation des Ernährungssystems" module in the MA course "Inter- und transdisziplinäre Analyse- und Transformationsansätze Nachhaltiger Entwicklung" (Co-lecturer with Dr. Julie Zähringer and Bettina Scharrer)
- "Food Sustainability – Das Recht auf Nahrung" Tutorium supervisor in the Bachelor Minor of Sustainable Development
Languages
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian