Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

Research Interests

  • Digital transformation of planning.

  • Spatial planning and landscape planning: instruments and processes.

  • Land-use conflicts and conflicting landscape services.

  • Driving forces and actors of land change and urbanisation.

  • Sprawl.

  • Multifunctional periurban landscapes.

  • Spatial adjacencies and interactions in spatial planning.

Education

PhD

Harvard University, USA

2000

Master of Environmental Planning

Arizona State University, USA

1994

Dipl. Kulturingenieurin ETH

ETH Zürich

1989

Scientific and Practical Career

Member of Directors Board, WSL

2019 - present

Group leader Landscape Ecology Group, WSL

2011 - present

Awarded honorary professorship at the University of Bucharest

05.09.2019

Group leader Landscape Management, WSL

2006 - 2010

Researcher at the WSL

2002 - 2006

Post Doc at the Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zürich

2001 - 2002

Researcher at the NSL (formerly ORL Institute), ETH Zürich

1994 - 1995

Researcher at the NSL (formerly ORL Institute), ETH Zürich

1991 - 1992

Engineer at Emch & Berger AG Aarau, Aarau, Ingenieure & Planer

1989 - 1991

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