Education and work experience
Trainings
PhD (Dr. rer. soc.)
Title: "Participation, Information and Democracy"
with "summa cum laude"
Institute for Political Science, University of Bern.
Supervisors: Prof. Wolf Linder (University of Bern), Prof. Michael Marsh (Trinity College Dublin).
2000
- 2004
Suisse
Master's Degree (Lic. rer.soc.) in political science and history
University of Bern and University of Geneva
1994
- 2000
Suisse
Course on «Multi-level modelling»
Vienna
2009
- 2009
Autriche
Summer School on Advanced Methods in Social Sciences
Lugano
2001
- 2001
Suisse
Courses «University Teaching» and «Rhetoric»
University of Bern
2001
- 2001
Suisse
ECPR Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis & Collection
Courses on multivariate analysis, advanced regression models and multi-level analysis.
University of Essex.
1996
- 1996
Grande-Bretagne
Work experience
Director of FORS
2016
Suisse
Project Director of the Swiss election study SELECTS
2008
- 2016
Suisse
Visiting Professor
University of Michigan, Centre of Political Studies (Ann Arbor)
2013
U.S.A.
Senior Assistant («Oberassistent»)
University of Bern, Institute for Political Science
2003
- 2007
Suisse
Others activities
Scientific expertise
- President of the Scientific Council for the joint Master Program "Public Opinion and Survey Re-search"
Professional memberships
- Swiss Political Science Association
- American Political Science Association
- Midwest Political Science Association
- International Political Science Association
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung
- European Survey Research Association
- RC 33 of the International Sociological Association («Logic and Methodology in Social Science»)
Edition
- Member of the editorial board of European Political Science
Media
- Regular media appearances in connection with national and local elections and votes, electoral systems, and political participation in Switzerland in electronic and print media
