Teaching & Talks
I teach reproducible data science with R and Quarto to newcomers, from graduate courses to free online cohorts and hands-on workshops for scientists and civil servants.
Courses
- 2024 - 2026 rstatsZH - Data Science mit R (redeveloped, k009-k012). Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, Zurich, CH
- 2022 - 2026 CVEN 5837/5873/5999 - Data Analytics for Development (4 iterations). University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, USA (online)
- 2025-09 - 2025-12 Data Science for openwashdata (ds4owd), Cohort 2. openwashdata / ETH Zurich
- 2022 - 2025 Research Beyond the Lab - Open Science and Research Methods (3 iterations). ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
- 2024-04 Quarto - Authoring and Publishing for Collaborative Scientific Writing. ETH Zurich - Global Health Engineering
- 2023-10 - 2024-02 Data Science for openwashdata (ds4owd), Cohort 1. openwashdata / ETH Zurich
- 2023-10 Open Science Tools for Collaborative Scientific Writing. ETH Zurich - Global Health Engineering, Zurich, CH
- 2021 - 2023 rstatsZH - Data Science mit R (k001-k008). Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, Zurich, CH
- 2017 Lecturer - Faecal Sludge Management. Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences (THM), Giessen, DE
- 2016 Lecturer - Sanitation MOOC. Massive Open Online Course: Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies
- 2013 - 2016 Lecturer - Faecal Sludge Management. NADEL (ETH Zurich) & EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Workshops
- 2026-06 Quarto for Collaborative Scientific Writing - RDM Summer School. ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
- 2026-07 Git for Scientists. ETH Zurich - Global Health Engineering, Zurich, CH
- 2025-05 Git for Scientists. CIS, ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
- 2024-06 Quarto for Collaborative Scientific Writing - RDM Summer School. ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
- 2024-11 FAIR Data Publishing. UKZN WASH Centre, UKZN, South Africa
- 2023-11 Data Stewardship - SST Educational Workshop. Swiss Toxicology Society (SST), Basel
- 2023-10 Reference Management with Zotero. Hubris to Hope (HS23)
- 2023-06 open by default - a data management strategy. ETH Research Data Management Summer School, Zurich, CH
- 2023-02 Data Stewardship Network Kick-off. ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH
Talks & Invited Presentations
Featured recording: Plan for tomorrow today - a model for data stewardship (ETH Library 17:15 Kolloquium).
- 2026-05 Hello, I am a Data Steward - ReproducibiliTea Journal Club. University of Zurich
- 2025-09 Publishing Open Metadata for ORD Projects of the ETH Domain. Swiss Open Academic Data (SOAD) Day
- 2025-06 Hello, I am a Data Steward - Career Talk. Research Software Engineering and Data Stewardship Career Panel
- 2025-05 Computational Reproducibility Seminar. Swiss Reproducibility Network (SwissRN)
- 2025-05 Plan for tomorrow today - D-USYS Transdisciplinary Lab Brown Bag. ETH Zurich D-USYS TdLab
- 2025-05 Open Research Data Program of the ETH Board - open metadata dataset. ETH ORD Programme
- 2024-11 Plan for tomorrow today - a model for data stewardship. ETH Library 17:15 Kolloquium
- 2024-10 Swiss Research Data Day (SRDD). SRDD
- 2024-09 Data Stewardship at Global Health Engineering. ETH Zurich
- 2024-06 Plan for tomorrow today - why you need a data steward. Swiss Reproducibility Conference (SwissRN)
- 2016 UNC Water and Health Conference. UNC, Chapel Hill, USA
- 2016 Sandec Research Seminar. Eawag / Sandec, Duebendorf, CH
- 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference. UNC, Chapel Hill, USA
- 2015 Stockholm World Water Week. SIWI, Stockholm, SE
- 2015 4th AfricaSan Conference. AfricaSan, Dakar, SN
- 2015 3rd Faecal Sludge Management Conference. FSM3, Hanoi, VN
- 2014 37th WEDC International Conference. WEDC, Hanoi, VN
- 2014 Stockholm World Water Week. SIWI, Stockholm, SE
- 2013 36th WEDC International Conference. WEDC, Nakuru, KE
- 2012 2nd Faecal Sludge Management Conference. FSM2, Durban, ZA
- 2012 Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) Conference. WISA, Cape Town, ZA