About
Dr. Mario Angst is a Researcher at the University of Zurich's Digital Society Initiative, focusing on governance networks and digitalization's role in sustainability governance. He co-leads the DSI Community Sustainability and the project sustainability.discourses, which analyzes urban sustainability transformations via computational methods and media data.
Research Areas: Governance networks, digitalization policy, computational social sciences, urban sustainability discourses, and policy in the Anthropocene. His work combines natural language processing, Bayesian models, and network analysis with interdisciplinary teams.
Scientific Awards:
- Robert Bosch Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership fellowship
- SNSF-funded visiting scholar at Stockholm Resilience Centre
Students: Supervises bachelor's, master's, and PhD students at the University of Bern and Zurich, with teaching experience in methodology and sustainability topics.
Labs & Tools: Develops computational tools like the R packages motifr, diskurs, and rayab, and contributes to the stance-llm Python library for actor stance classification.
