Experience
2025 - Present
Postdoc.Mobility Return
I was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation PostDoc.Mobility Return Grant to return to Switzerland and join the Game Technology Center (GTC) at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. My project revolves around developing and implementing a gamified urban crowdsourcing application called HereSay to explore perceptions of urban blue and green spaces.
2023 - 2025
Postdoc.Mobility
I was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation PostDoc.Mobility Grant to work with the Centre for eResearch (University of Auckland, New Zealand), and the Gamification Group (Tampere University, Finland) on gamification and crowdsourcing in landscape perception data generation. I am developing, testing and analysing a location-based game (Arcane Shift) to gauge the potential of gamifying spatial crowdsourcing tasks.
2018 - 2023
PhD Candidate
As a PhD Candidate in the Geocomputation Group at the University of Zurich my main focus was crowdsourcing and citizen science in landscape perception and preference research using spatial as well as computational linguistic approaches.
2017 - 2018
Research Assistant
I worked as a research assistant in the Geocomputation Group of the University of Zurich. Tasks involved contract research, administrative work and writing papers.
2015 - 2017
Freelance GIS Specialist
I completed various contract work projects as a self employed freelancer specialising in web-design and geographic information systems.
2013 - 2015
GeoplanTeam AG
At GeoplanTeam AG I was employed as a part time geographic information system specialist and worked on a variety of projects. I used a multitude of tools including AutoCAD 3D, Spatial Databases, Leaflet, d3.js
2011 - 2013
K-Link GmbH
At K-Link I was employed as a part time webdesigner and was primarily tasked with creating and maintaining bespoke websitesfor clients.
Education
2017
MSc in GIScience, University of Zurich
with distinction
2014
BSc Geography, University of Bern
magna cum laude
Languages
SKILLS
OO: C#, Java, Flutter/Dart
Data Analysis: R, Python
Game Engine: Unity
Spatial: ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, GDAL
Webmapping: Leaflet, MapBox, OSM
Web Dev: Symfony, NodeJS, WordPress
SQL DB: MySQL, PostgreSQL + PostGIS, SQLite
NoSQL DB: Google Firestore, Neo4j, MongoDB
Misc: Google Firebase Storage, Google Firebase Auth
HOBBIES
windsurfing, wingfoiling, fpv drones, creating and playing digital and analog games, hydroponics, spicy chillies, food and beverage adventures, and more…
Contact
- www.spatialsparks.com
- Research Gate
- ORCID
- Linked-In