Curriculum Vitae

1972-1976  Primary School in Mühlethurnen (BE), Switzerland

1976-1981  Secondary School in Riggisberg (BE), Switzerland

1981-1985   Gymnasium Bern-Neufeld (BE), Switzerland. Matura Type C (science and mathematics)

1982-1984   United World College of the Atlantic, Wales. International Baccalaureate (IB).

1986-1991  Degree in chemistry at the Institute of Inorganic, Analytical and Physical Chemistry (now Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)of the University of Bern, Switzerland. Thesis: SteadyFit: A program for the simultaneous determination of kinetic and thermodynamic parameters. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. P. W. Schindler and Dr. G. Furrer.

1992-1996  Doctor of natural sciences (Dr. sc. nat.) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich   Institute of Terrestrial Ecology   Soil Protection. Title: Kinetics of Hydrolytic Reactions of Organic Compounds at Soil Mineral-Water Interfaces (Diss. ETH No- 11714). Examiner: Prof. Dr. R. Schulin. Co-examiners: Prof. Dr. R. Schwarzenbach and Dr. G. Furrer.

1999-present

• Jan 03, 2001: MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) on Windows NT 4.
• Apr 17, 2002: CCNA® (Cisco Certified Network Associate).
• Jul 18, 2002: MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) on Windows 2000.
• Mar 13, 2004: CSSA (Certified SonicWALL Security Administrator).
• Feb 03, 2005: MCDBA (Microsoft Certified Database Administrator) on SQL Server 2000.
• May 24, 2005: Microsoft Business Solutions Certified Master - Navision Developer.

1983  Nobel Award for the Extended Essay An investigation of Moiré patterns, some methods of constructing them and a few applications as part of the IB at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales.

1985  First prize of the City of Berne for excellent performance during the last year at the Gymnasium [1. Maturitätspreis der Stadt Bern für hervorragende Leistungen während des letzten Schuljahres]

1986  First prize of the Swiss Youth Researches ( Schweizer Jugend forscht) competition for the treatise Moiré patterns, an introduction to their mathematics and a few applications.

1996  Otto-Jaag Prize of the ETH Zürich for an excellent dissertation.

1988, 1996   Federal Dairy Institute, Bee Department, Schwarzenburgstrasse 155, CH-3097 Liebefeld, with Dr. S. Bogdanov on the residue analysis of acaricides in honey and bees wax and the statistical analysis of honey data to distinguish between the geographical and botanical origin of honey (3 months)

1989  Swiss Federal Research Station for Agricultural Chemistry and Hygiene of the Environment, Schwarzenburgstrasse 155, CH-3097 Liebefeld (now Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agroculture), with Dr. S. Gupta (1 month).
 
State Agricultural Research Station Fureneset, Fure, Norway, mainly field work (1 month)

1990  Excursion to the Black Sea (Bulgaria) with the Environmental Systems Class of the United World College of the Adriatic, Italy.

1991  Swiss Federal Research Station for Agricultural Chemistry and Hygiene of the Environment, Schwarzenburgstrasse 155, CH 3097 Liebefeld (now Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agroculture), with Dr. M. Braun on the chemistry of agricultural water protection [Chemie des landwirtschaftlichen Gewässerschutzes] (4 months).

1992-1996  Research Associate in the Soil Protection Group ( ETHZ-ITÖ). Supervision of term-work and graduate theses.

1996-1997  One year post-doctoral study in the Aquatic Processes Division of the Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Ambleside, UK, under the supervision of Dr. E. Tipping. European Science Exchange Program, financed by the Royal Society, submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation

1997-1998  Research Associate in the Soil Protection Group ( ETHZ-ITÖ).

1999-present  Project manager in the engineering department of AS INFORMATIK AG, a company specialised in computer networks.