Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

Education

• 2022 - 2023: CAS Diversity and Equality Competence at the FHNW School of Business
• 2018 - 2022: PhD in Social Work at the University of Education Freiburg (DE)
• 2014 - 2017: Master of Social Work from the FHNW School of Social Work
• 2015 - 2016: DAS in Interdisciplinary Conflict Analysis and Conflict Resolution at the University of Basel
• 2011 - 2014: Bachelor of Social Work from the FHNW School of Social Work
• 2005 - 2008: Diploma in Nursing (HF) (specialisation in psychiatry) at the HFGS Aarau

Career milestones

• Since 2023: Specialist Diversity & Inclusion, AXA Insurance Switzerland
  
• Since 2017: Research associate (research and teaching), FHNW School of Social Work, Institute for Integration and Participation
• Since 2015: Coaching of professionals on homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender (LGBTQ) through workshops and case-by-case consultations (programme “du-bist-du”)
• 2021 - 2023: Diversity Officer FHNW School of Social Work
• 2011 - 2018: Head of the programme “du-bist-du” of the Zurich AIDS-Hilfe (AIDS support) (LGBTQ section)
• 2008 - 2017: Conception, management and implementation of prevention projects, campaigns and offers in the field of sexual and mental health for men who have sex with men as well as HIV/STI counselling and testing at the Checkpoint of the Zurich AIDS-Hilfe (AIDS support)
• 2014 - 2016: HIV/STI counselling and testing at Sexual Health Aargau
• 2014 - 2016: Student assistant at the School of Social Work FHNW
• 2010 - 2011: Nurse (HF) in the field of addiction therapy at the Psychiatric Hospital Wil (SG)
• 2008 - 2010: Nurse (HF) in the field of acute care at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich

Main focus

• HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections
• Gender, romantic and sexual diversity (LGBTQ)
• Sex work
  
• Diversity and equality
  
• Stigmatisation and discrimination