I am at home in academia and business.

I am interested in philosophy and the history of science, the borders of knowledge, the foundations of reality, the limits of perception and cognition, emergence of self-organization and information processing, collective intelligence, sustainability, environmental issues, defects of the financial system, and technology.

I like snowboarding, electronic music, surfing, travelling, climbing, interacting with people, writing, skateboarding, Linux, and the blockchain.

I love Ladina <3

Short Bio

Senior researcher at flov technologies (2018-present)
Finished open-access book: Information-Consciousness-Reality (2013-2018)
Quant at Lykke, a FinTech company building a global marketplace for the exchange of digital assets based on the blockchain (2017/2018)
Involved with the vision and setup of Oyoba, a digital, mobile-first wallet bank with blockchain integration, operated from Switzerland (2017)
Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich, (2014-2018)
Co-founder of ECUREX, a Swiss-based digital finance marketplace (2014-2017)
12 years quantitative research at Olsen Ltd, an investment boutique in Zurich (2001-2013)
Ph.D. (Dr. sc. nat) complex systems at Chair of Systems Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH (2010)
M.Sc. theoretical high energy particle physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH (1999)
Swiss matura, economics, Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz (1992)

Charitable activities:
- noon.ch: direct support agains poverty in India; co-founder/treasurer (2005)
- Slow Motion Projects: support people in building a sustainable future; co-founder (2015)
Public speaking
Writing
Trip around the world 2000/2001