Mission

Statistical support for Master and PhD Students

Current work

- Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)(Experimental Design and Data Analysis with R) - Lecturer in Statistics at the Bernise University for Applied Science,Department of wood engineering - Member of the Appeal Commission of the Domain of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technolgy - Member of FSC International and FSC Switzerland - Free lance Consultant (project management, sustainable use of natural resources, ecosystem approach, landscape approach, statistical methods, experimental design, sampling techniques, research policy) - Member of the IUCN Commission for Ecosystem Management - Member of the Federal Commission Idane Forest

Biography

Examples of international experience: - Research project in Indonesia (Impact of forest exploitation on the ecological quality of rivers) - Research project in Columbia (Impacts of petroleum exploitation on rivers and landscapes) - Teaching at the University of Antananarivo (Sustainable management of natiral resources) - Other countries: Canada, Sweden, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Switzerland, France, UK Scientific education: - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (Forestry), - University Laval Quebec (Forest inventory and Statistics), - University of Edinburgh (Statistics, Biometry), - Oregon State University (Landscape ecology, Forest ecology). Professional career: - Statstician at Ciba-Geigy Basel(1969-1975), - Professor for Statistics and Physics at the Swiss Engineering School for Agriculture Zollikofen (1975-1982), - Professor for Forest Management and Forest Biometry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (1982-1987), - Director general of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Birmensorf and Professor for Forest Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Zürich (1987-1996), - Professor for Ecosystem Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy Lausanne (1997-2005) - From 2005: Honory Professsor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Consulting

Director of ECHO-Power, consulting for environmental, ecological, statistical and managerial challenges Consultant for In-Finitude, Activities: - project management - project evaluation - moderation of workshops and seminars - animation of training courses - design and analysis of experiments and surveys - analysis of data - reporting the state of scientific knowledge Domains: - sustainable management of biological resources, including forest resources - criteria and indincators for sustainable development - landscape approach - ecosystem approach - conservation of biodiversity - restoration of degraded ecological systems - statistical methods, including sampling techniques