• D-Evolution

About Me

Currently, I work as a Senior Lecturer (Mâitre-assistant) at the Center for Affective Sciences, at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

I consider myself a Cultural and Community Psychologist, broadly defined. My academic work is situated at the intersection of a variety of fields in the cultural, social, behavioral, and computational sciences, and adopts an integrative perspective to the study of intercultural, interspecies, and human-environment relations. In my work I employ methods from cultural sciences, psychology, behavioral and data science—while incorporating theoretical insights from emerging perspectives in anthropology. My main research interest lies in understanding how elementary kinds of relational (communal, hierarchical, egalitarian) motives underpin meaningful psychological and socio-environmental phenomena and how these relational motives are shaped by––and interact with––socio-cultural processes and factors. Topics of particular interest to me are social and ecological (in)equality, climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, pro-environmental behaviors, misinformation and conspiracy beliefs, prejudice and discrimination, well-being, and political ideologies amongst others. My work utilizes qualitative methods such as (semi-)structured interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and participatory action research, as well as quantitative methodologies including experimental survey research and methodology, advanced statistical analysis, and machine learning techniques for big data analysis (e.g., random forests, natural language processing).

At the University of Geneva, I primarily investigate evidenced-based climate change communication strategies to facilitate increased pro-environmental and pro-social behaviors. To this end, I develop and experimentally evaluate different psychological intervention methods aimed at sustainable behavior change. My work is undertaken cooperatively with high-quality video content creators.

Beside my academic work, I serve as a Data Scientist for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative (FFNPT). The FFNPT is a global network of scientists, policy makers, and activists engaged in facilitating a rapid and fair transition away from fossil fuels towards renewable energies across the globe. In my role as a Data Scientist for the FFNPT, I am responsible for an interactive online app which he programmed to utilize web-scraping and Natural Language Processing to automatically identify, filter, and visualize climate change mitigation and adaptation policies globally (https://fossilfueltracker.org).

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