Delegate of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences: Grouping II

Senior researcher and lecturer

Research Network

• Research Network "Sustainable Futures", Univ. of Basel

• Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecolog (saguf): https://saguf.ch/ (co-president)

• German Political Science Association, Working group “Environmental Policy/Global Change”: https://www.ak-umwelt.de/ (Co-speaker)

Main research topics

• Sustainability governance and the state

• Politics and governance of the SDGs

• Food politics and food democracy

• Social innovation and transformation

Current research projects

• The Sustainabilization of the State - Forms, Functions and Formation of Sustainability Governance in Swiss Cantons (funded by SNSF)
• Transformative Städtische Ernährungsprojekte: Was bewährt sich wo und wie? (TASTE) (funded by SDSN)

Favorite Courses within the MSD Curriculum

Lecture: Sustainable Development: A new Societal Paradigm?

Lectures

Lectures overview incl. current semester