Activities at FHNW
Lecturer, Institute Nonprofit- and Public Management
Profile
Positions
- Professor for Public Management, School of Business, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland – since 2025
- Division Head, Police Sciences, Cantonal Police of Basel-Stadt, Department of Justice and Security of the Canton of Basel-Stadt – 2021 to 2025
- Senior Researcher and Project Manager, Faculté des Sciences de la Société, Université de Genève – 2019 to 2021
- SNF Ambizione Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer, Institute of Science, Technology and Policy, ETH Zürich – 2016 to 2019
- Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich – 2009 to 2016
Education
- Doctorate in International Relations (Political Science), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
- Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston
- Human Security Certificate, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston
- Licence en relations internationales, Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Genève
Visiting positions
- Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo
- Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
- Research Department, Tribhuvan University, Katmandu
- Groupe de recherche stratégie et sécurité, Université de Marrakech
- Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, University of Cambridge
- Centre d’Etudes et Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po Paris
- Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
- Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School for Social Research
- Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Teaching and Consulting Activities
Teaching
Lectures
- Contemporary Security Politics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Seminars
- Township security governmentality, ETH Zürich & University of Cape Town
- Introduction to academic/political science writing and research, ETH Zürich
- Critical security studies and methods, ETH Zürich
- Critical security and gender studies, University of Lucerne
- Conflict and security studies, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
- International political economy, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Courses
- La sécurisation de l’espace public, Université de Neuchâtel
- Police (and) science, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
- Security and the city, Université de Lausanne
- Urban security politics, Tribhuvan University, Katmandu
- Globalisation de la sécurité urbaine, Université de Marrakech
- Security as political technology, Université de Fribourg
- Sociology of International Relations, The New School for Social Research
- Sicherheitspolitische Meinungsbildung, MILAK Birmensdorf
- Securitization theory, ETH Zürich
Expert activities
- Strategic Management Support, Federal Chancellery
- NAP Radicalisation and Violent Extremism, Swiss Security Network
- Strategic Group for Security Research and Innovation, Europol
- Comité technique pour la recherche scientifique, Francopol
- Bildungspolitisches Gesamtkonzept Polizei – Kader, Swiss Police Institute
- Safe & Sound Cities and TypCities programs, Fondation Botnar
- Youth Urban Safety Competition, Global Infrastructure Basel & ICLEI Bonn
- International Swiss Talent Forum, Schweizer Jungend forscht
- Future Cities Lab Global, ETH Zürich
- Funding Area Visual Arts, Pro Helvetia
- Federal Office for National Economic Supply
- Research and Development, Federal Office for Civil Protection
- Research and Development, Danish Ministry for Innovation and Research
- UN Security Council Delegation, Slovak Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs
Research
Research fields
- International, national and urbane security politics
- Applied and translational police research
- Security and risk governance – theories and concepts
Current research projects
- Safeguarding urban interim spaces: understanding the needs, improving the practices – Canton of Basel-Stadt, Fondation Botnar
- Lehren aus dem (intern-)nationalen Sicherheitsverbund für die Vorbeugung von Radikalisierung und Extremismus in Schweizer Polizeiwesen – Swiss Police Institute, ZHAW, NAP Radicalisation
Completed research projects
- Einordnung, Erkennung und Vorbeugung von Radikalisierung innerhalb des Schweizer Polizeiwesens – Cantonal Police of Basel-Stadt, NAP Radicalisation
- UNSCdebate: Studying and mapping controversy at the UN Security Council –Swiss National Science Foundation
- The politicization of security: Controversy, mobilization, arena shifting – Swiss National Science Foundation
- Securing the city: the global politics and practices of urban protection – Swiss National Science Foundation
- Bound to cooperate? Mapping Swiss security in a changing global landscape – Swiss National Science Foundation