Martin Sterchi is a lecturer for Business Analytics at the School of Business FHNW. He studied Economics at the Universities of Fribourg (BA 2012) and Zurich (MA 2016). He completed his PhD in the field of Computer Science in February 2023 (at the University of Zurich). The topic of his PhD thesis is "Computational Approaches to Epidemic Prevention on Contact Networks". His work focuses on problems in the fields of Econometrics, Network Analysis, and Machine Learning.

Teaching

• Empirical Methods and Business Analytics (BSc Business Administration)
• Project week Applied Data Science (BSc Business Administration, BSc International Management)
• Machine Learning (Specialization Managerial Data Science)
• Business Analytics and Quantitative Methods (MSc Business Information Systems)
  

Consulting

• Pricing of services in the health sector
• Data analyses in the health sector
• Economic analyses in the agricultural sector

• Stöckli, S., Messner, C., Sterchi, M., & Dorn, M. (2019). Unreliable is Better: Theoretical and Practical Impulses for Performance Management. Die Unternehmung - Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice, 2019, 167-180.
• Sterchi, M., Faverjon, C., Sarasua, C., Vargas, M. E., Berezowski, J., Bernstein, A., Grütter, R., & Nathues, H. (2019). The pig transport network in Switzerland: Structure, patterns, and implications for the transmission of infectious diseases between animal holdings. PLoS ONE, 2019, 1-20.
• Hulliger, B., & Sterchi, M. (2018). A survey-based design of a pricing system for psychotherapy. Health Economics Review, 2018, 1-11.
• Faverjon, C., Bernstein, A., Gru?tter, R., Nathues, H., Sarasua, C., Sterchi, M., Vargas, M.E., & Berezowski, J, (2018). PIG DATA: transdisciplinary approach for health analytics of the Swiss Swine Industry. Olten, Switzerland.
• Sterchi, M., & Wolf, M. (2017). Weighted least squares and adaptive least squares: Further empirical evidence. In V. Kerinovich, S. Sriboonchitta, & V. Huynh (Eds.), Robustness in Econometrics (pp. 135-167). Basel: Springer International Publishing.