Pillet Line is an HES Ordinary Professor and Head of the Entrepreneurship & Management Institute at HES-SO Valais-Wallis, part of the Haute Ecole de Gestion. Her research focuses on organizational governance, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and crisis management. She leads academic programs in entrepreneurship, team leadership, and business strategy. Her work integrates systemic approaches to organizational resilience, as seen in studies on pandemic response and multicultural team dynamics. She co-authored influential publications on academic entrepreneurship frameworks and strategies for sustainable business innovation. Key contributions include analyses of post-pandemic institutional resilience and cross-cultural pedagogical models. She actively engages in conferences addressing organizational challenges in education and industry.
Adeline Paignon is a Scientific or Artistic Assistant at HES-SO, serving as a training officer and research coordinator at the Geneva Interprofessional Simulation Center (CiS). Her work focuses on interprofessional education, simulation-based training, and healthcare collaboration. She holds multiple BSc degrees in Nursing, Midwifery, Nutrition, Radiology Technology, and Physiotherapy from the Geneva School of Health. Education: BSc in Nursing BSc in Midwifery BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics BSc in Radiology Technology BSc in Physiotherapy Her research interests include interprofessional collaboration, patient-centered care, simulation-based education, and healthcare system improvement. Notable projects include studies on parental roles in healthcare for individuals with intellectual disabilities and the implementation of serious games in healthcare training. She has contributed to over 20 peer-reviewed articles and has been involved in funded projects such as the 'Parents sentinelles de la santé' study and the 'n@w' nurse retention project. Adeline’s work emphasizes the importance of interprofessional teamwork and innovation in healthcare education. She has developed training programs for educators and collaborated with institutions like the Geneva University Hospital and insieme Genève.
Séréna Vanbutsele is a Full Professor and Head of the TRANSFORM Research Institute at the Fribourg School of Engineering and Architecture (HEIA-FR), part of HES-SO. She teaches in the Joint Master of Arts in Architecture and focuses on urban planning intersections with architecture and landscape design. Her expertise centers on urban pressures on underutilized spaces like brownfields, city fringes, and natural areas amid densification challenges. Education: Ba HES-SO in Architecture from Fribourg School of Engineering and Architecture Research Interests: Urban greening, landscape architecture, qualitative densification, actor systems, and wasteland utilization. She emphasizes sustainable urban development through projects like: Peripatix (innovative space concept for sex workers) VI-Vid (urban voids valuation) EN[CHAMPS]ter (agri-urban interfaces) Recent Projects: Over CHF 500k in grants including urban void cartography, modular construction deconstruction, and pedestrian promotion in Fribourg's Pérolles district. Key Contributions: 15+ peer-reviewed articles on urban transformation, sustainable architecture, and interdisciplinary pedagogy. Leads TRANSFORM's research into adaptive reuse and urban resilience.
Silja Häusermann is a Full Professor of Swiss Politics and Comparative Political Economy at the Department of Political Science within the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zurich. She teaches courses on Swiss politics, comparative political economy, comparative politics, and welfare state research. Her academic appointments include teaching Political Systems and Theories I, Swiss Politics, Publication Seminar, and the CIS Research Colloquium for the 2025 academic year. Professor Häusermann's research focuses on comparative politics, comparative political economy, and political behavior. Specifically, she studies socio-structural change, electoral and party system change, and their impact on distributive policies, as well as inequality, the transformation of welfare state and labor market politics in advanced post-industrial democracies. Her work demonstrates a strong emphasis on the transformation of left politics and social democracy in knowledge societies. Her recent publications reveal a consistent focus on social democracy, welfare politics, party competition, and political cleavages in contemporary democracies. The research spans comparative analysis across Western democracies with particular attention to Swiss politics. Her work often examines how economic changes, inequality perceptions, and socio-structural transformations affect political behavior, party strategies, and welfare state reforms. Professor Häusermann serves as Deputy Director of the UZH Research Priority Program Equality of Opportunities, co-directed with Professors David Dorn (economics) and Matthias Mahlmann (law). She leads a research group focused on distributive justice and conflict in capitalist democracies. Her academic collaborations span numerous institutions and involve extensive work with colleagues across Europe on projects examining political economy, welfare state transformation, and political behavior.
Peter Burgherr is a researcher and group leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), leading the interdisciplinary Technology Assessment (TA) group within the Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis (LEA). He holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and serves as a lecturer at ETH Zurich in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, with additional teaching roles at HSLU, ZHAW, University of Geneva, EPIC (University of Chicago), and KINGS (Busan, Korea). His research focuses on energy systems, particularly comparative risk assessment, sustainability, resilience, and energy security. He is the primary developer of the Energy-Related Severe Accident Database (ENSAD), the world's most comprehensive database on severe accidents in the energy sector. His work integrates Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) frameworks and tools such as Mighty MCDA and MCDA Index Tool to support decision-making in sustainable energy transitions. He has been a Principal Investigator in major research programs including the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Supply of Electricity (SCCER SoE) and the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) program at the Singapore ETH Centre. He regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals, serves on editorial boards for Frontiers in Energy Research and Sustainability , and acts as a reviewer for several scientific journals. Scientific Awards: PSI Diversity Award (First Laureate) He supervises students at all levels (PhD, MSc, BSc, interns), participates in PSI mentoring and diversity training programs, and contributes to education and outreach in sustainable energy systems. He is actively involved in international conferences and collaborative research networks.
Jishnu Das is a Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His research spans health and education systems in low- and middle-income countries, with significant contributions to quality assessment, policy design, and large-scale program evaluation. Education: St. Stephen’s College (Delhi), Cambridge (U.K.), Harvard University (USA) Das co-developed the LEAPS project, a 20-year cohort study on education outcomes in low-income settings. His healthcare work includes audit studies on provider quality in India and policy frameworks for health insurance in global contexts. Recent publications focus on financial interventions for private schools, regulatory reforms in health markets, and equilibrium effects of public education spending. Scientific honors include: George Bereday Award (Comparative & International Education Society) Stockholm Challenge Award (ICT in Public Administration, 2006) World Bank Research Academy award (2013, 2017) He served on the Lancet Commission on Covid-19 in India and advised West Bengal’s global pandemic board.
Yuval Feldman is a prominent Professor at Bar-Ilan University's Faculty of Law in Israel, where he has established himself as a leading scholar in behavioral ethics and law. His work bridges legal theory with psychological insights to examine how people actually behave in legal contexts rather than how traditional legal theory assumes they will behave. Feldman's research spans multiple institutions through collaborations with scholars from Hebrew University, University of San Diego, Harvard Law School, and other international institutions. Feldman's research interests focus on the intersection of behavioral ethics, law, and psychology. His work examines how subtle psychological factors influence compliance with legal norms, the effectiveness of different regulatory approaches, and how organizations can design systems that account for human ethical limitations. He has made significant contributions to understanding 'bounded ethicality' - the concept that even good people routinely engage in unethical behavior without awareness due to cognitive limitations and situational factors. His research has practical implications for regulatory design across multiple domains including corporate governance, environmental policy, and consumer protection. Analysis of Feldman's most recent publications reveals a consistent focus on how behavioral insights can improve legal and regulatory systems. His work demonstrates how traditional legal assumptions about rational actors need updating with psychological evidence about actual human behavior. Recent articles show increasing attention to polarization's impact on compliance, the role of social identity in legal obedience, and how trust mediates regulatory effectiveness. His scholarship consistently applies experimental methods to test theoretical propositions about law's influence on behavior. Feldman is best known for his book 'The Law of Good People: Challenging States' Ability to Regulate Humane Behavior' (Cambridge University Press, 2018), which synthesizes his research on how legal systems can better account for the psychology of ordinary unethicality. His work has been published in top law reviews including Northwestern University Law Review, Harvard Public Law Working Paper series, and Texas Law Review. Through extensive collaborations with interdisciplinary scholars, Feldman has developed innovative approaches to studying legal compliance that integrate experimental methodologies from psychology with traditional legal scholarship. His research program demonstrates how understanding the psychological mechanisms behind rule-following can lead to more effective regulatory design that acknowledges human cognitive limitations while promoting ethical behavior.
Peter A. Schmid ist ein Schweizer Hochschuldozent und Projektmanager an der Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit. Er ist hauptsächlich am Lucerne School of Social Work tätig und lehrt auch am Departement Informatik. Als nebenamtlicher Dozent und aktiver Part-Time Lecturer verbindet er ethische Grundlagen mit digitalen Innovationsfragen. Bildung: Studium der Philosophie und Staatsrecht an der Universität Zürich Assistenzarbeit am Philosophischen Seminar (6 Jahre) Forschungsschwerpunkte: Ethische und normative Fragestellungen der Sozialen Arbeit Digitale Ethik und künstliche Intelligenz Grundlagen der ethischen Entscheidungsfindung Publikationstrends: Seine Arbeiten fokussieren auf die Intersektion von Ethik, Sozialer Arbeit und digitalen Technologien, mit historischen Bezügen zu Philosophen wie Hermann Cohen und aktuellen Anwendungen in Bildung, Mediation und Gesundheitswesen. Projekte: Masterstudiengang Soziale Arbeit (2015–2022) Serviceprojekt 'Handeln im Spannungsfeld' Soziale Arbeit bewegt, stützt, begleitet Inklusion und Exklusion durch Normierung im Sozialstaat
Philipp Schütz is a Professor at the Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture (HSLU), part of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He holds dual appointments in the Institute of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Technology (IME) where he leads the CC Thermal Energy Storage research group, and the Institute of Natural and Social Sciences (ING). His office is located in Room E300/E311 at Technikumstrasse 21, 6048 Horw, Switzerland. Dr. Schütz earned his Physics degree from ETH Zürich with specialization in theoretical physics and optics. He completed his PhD in 2009 at the University of Zürich's Biochemical Institute, focusing on computer-aided modeling of spectroscopy experiments and pattern recognition in biochemical networks. From 2010-2014, he worked as a researcher at Empa in Dübendorf developing non-destructive testing methods before joining HSLU in September 2014 as a Physics lecturer. He completed a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education Didactics in 2015 and the 'Exzellenz in der Lehre' program in 2019. Professor Schütz's research spans Non-destructive Testing with emphasis on X-ray computed tomography , Energy System Modeling , and Computational Physics . His work on phase change materials and thermal energy storage has led to significant advancements in understanding calcium chloride hexahydrate solidification and salt hydrate behavior. He combines experimental work with sophisticated computational modeling, including Monte Carlo simulations and high-performance computing approaches. His expertise in algorithm development for large image datasets has applications across energy systems, materials science, and archaeological conservation. His publication record shows a clear evolution from fundamental physics toward applied engineering solutions, with recent work (2023-2025) increasingly focused on practical thermal energy storage applications for residential and district heating systems. The integration of X-ray computed tomography with energy system modeling represents his unique interdisciplinary approach. Professor Schütz actively leads numerous research initiatives including SWEET PATHFNDR, SWEET DeCarbCH TES, WindCoEconomy, and INTERSTORES. He teaches Mathematics & Physics for Engineering students and Time Series Analysis in the Master of Science in Applied Information and Data Science program. His research group operates advanced X-ray computed tomography facilities for studying material properties, energy storage systems, and conservation methods for archaeological materials, bridging theoretical physics with practical engineering applications in the energy sector.
Massimiliano Vatiero is an active academic with dual affiliations: Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) , and Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Trento . He has been affiliated with USI's Law Institute (IDUSI) since 2010 and holds formal appointments ratified by both universities. His work bridges law, economics, and institutional analysis. His research focuses on Law and Economics, Corporate Governance, Institutional Economics, Transaction Cost Economics, and Contract Theory . He explores the interplay between legal frameworks and economic behavior, with particular interest in smart contracts, blockchain, corporate hierarchy, and the historical evolution of economic thought. His recent publications reflect a strong engagement with digital transformation and governance innovation. The analysis of his 15 most recent articles (2023–2025) reveals a thematic concentration on smart contracts and their transaction costs , corporate governance and political economy , automation and labor markets , and critical reassessments of classical economic theories (e.g., Clark, Patten, Williamson). His work combines theoretical depth with empirical and historical insights. He has received recognition through research funding and fellowships, including: Research Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2014) Fellow, Comparative Corporate Governance and Finance Program, Harvard Law School Vatiero actively contributes to the academic community as Principal Investigator of the DigitChart project (funded by USI), and he serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Journal of Industrial and Business Economics , Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice , History of Economic Ideas , and Review of Economics and Institutions . He is a founding member of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (SIDE) and the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) . He has held visiting positions at Chicago-Kent College of Law , University of Hamburg , and Harvard Law School , underscoring his international academic engagement.
Massimo Morini is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), and also serves as a professor at Bocconi University. He holds a PhD in Mathematics and combines academic research with a leading role in industry as Head of Rates and Credit Modelling at Banca IMI, part of Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank. His research focuses on quantitative finance , model risk management , credit risk , and the application of blockchain technology and smart contracts in financial markets. He pioneered blockchain research in finance as early as 2013 and authored the first article proposing blockchain as a solution for modernizing financial infrastructure. His recent publications reflect a strong trend toward decentralized finance, trusted computation, collateral optimization, and regulatory innovation. These works span disciplines in blockchain, financial engineering, cryptography, and risk modeling, with subfields including smart contracts, DeFi, XVA adjustments, and enterprise blockchain applications. Massimo has been a consultant to the World Bank, CFTC, and various regulators, and his work has been cited in the US Senate. He has served on scientific boards including Numerix (NYC) and the Blockchain Lab (Swiss consortium), and was a board member of the R3 banks’ consortium, leading the Valuation, Collateral & Risk Management working group. Member, Scientific Board, Numerix (New York) Board Member, R3 Consortium (Valuation, Collateral & Risk Management Working Group) Member, Scientific Committee, Blockchain Lab (Swiss Bitcoin Developers Consortium) Consultant, World Bank, CFTC, and financial regulators He frequently speaks at major industry events such as SIBOS and London Tech Week. His research has been featured in Risk Magazine , Coindesk , Harvard Business Review , and Bitcoin Magazine . He has also authored seminal books on model risk and collateral, available via his publication links. While no formal advisees are listed, his leadership in academic programs—such as serving as MSc Director at Politecnico di Milano—demonstrates a strong commitment to education and mentorship. He was previously a Research Fellow at Cass Business School, City University of London. Massimo leads research initiatives in blockchain-enabled financial systems and is actively involved in shaping the future of financial market infrastructure through trusted computation and decentralized protocols.
Grégoire Schrago is a Lecturer in the Medicine Section at the Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is actively involved in teaching within the medical sciences domain and contributes to the academic mission of the institution. His primary affiliation is with the Medical Section, which encompasses departments such as Endocrinology, Metabolism and Cardiovascular System; Oncology, Microbiology and Immunology; Community Health; Neuroscience and Movement Sciences; and Medical-surgical disciplines. This institutional context suggests a strong foundation in clinical and biomedical education. Research interests are inferred from his academic placement and include areas such as Medical Sciences, Regenerative Medicine, Human Medicine, and Biomedical Research. While no specific publications or research projects are listed in the available text, his role supports advanced medical education at the university level. No scientific awards or honors are mentioned in the provided content. There is no information available regarding student advising, grants, or leadership in labs and research teams. However, as a lecturer, he likely participates in teaching activities, curriculum development, and student supervision within the medical program.
Pascal R. Bersier is a Lecturer and Head of the Continuing Education Program in Private Client Consulting at Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences. He leads the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Private Client Consulting Advanced, focusing on professional development in private banking and financial advisory services. His expertise lies in private banking, wealth management, and client consulting, with a professional interest in the application of social media in financial services. His work emphasizes practical training and continuing education for finance professionals. No recent scholarly articles or research publications are listed, indicating a focus on professional instruction rather than academic research. There are no recorded scientific awards or honors mentioned in the available information. Pascal R. Bersier is involved in academic leadership and teaching within a specialized finance education program. He does not appear to supervise students in a formal research capacity, and there is no mention of research grants or funding. No associated research labs or teams are specified in the provided text.
Jonas Schmid is a PostDoc researcher at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, affiliated with the Chair of Comparative Politics in the SWEET-EDGE project. He previously served as an Assistant and PhD candidate at the Chair of Swiss Politics (2018–2023). His work focuses on renewable energy policy, particularly wind energy permitting, administrative federalism, and digitalization of political institutions in Switzerland. Education includes a Master's in Comparative International Studies from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich (2013–2015), and a BA in International Affairs from the Universities of Geneva and Bern (2008–2012). His research explores topics such as federalism's impact on energy policy implementation, subsidy effectiveness for renewable energy, and practical federalism in administrative practice. Recent publications analyze Swiss wind energy authorization procedures, biomass deployment policies, and the challenges of energy federalism. His conference presentations address energy transition dynamics in decentralized systems and the role of cantonal policies. Teaching includes seminars on renewable energy social acceptance and digitalization of political institutions, with a focus on methodological training for political science students. Collaborations include projects on municipal energy management (Seecon GmbH), SBB strategy development, and cybersecurity research with ETH Zurich. His work bridges theoretical political science with practical policy analysis, emphasizing the interplay between institutional frameworks and real-world governance challenges.
Seraina Buob is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of St. Gallen and currently serves as School Manager for the School of Economics and Political Science (SEPS-HSG). She holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Bern (2005–2009) and has extensive professional experience in program development, academic administration, and climate policy research. Her roles include Assistant to the President's Board at FHS St. Gallen (2018–2019) and Project Manager for Program Development at the University of St. Gallen (2012–2018). Education: Business Education, University of St. Gallen (2015–2017) Doctorate in Economics, University of Bern (2005–2009) Studies in Economics, University of Bern (2000–2005) Research Interests: Seraina Buob's work focuses on climate economics, environmental policy, and the strategic interplay between climate mitigation and adaptation. She explores funding mechanisms for adaptation, international environmental agreements, and the economic implications of climate policy. Her research has been published in leading journals and contributes to global discussions on sustainable development and climate justice. Teaching: She teaches courses such as Economics (Assessment Level), Introduction into Academic Writing, and Integrationswoche BWL (Economics). Her teaching emphasizes practical application of economic principles and academic rigor. Professional Contributions: Her volunteer work includes projects with the Khmer New Generation Organization in Cambodia and African Impact in Tanzania, reflecting her commitment to community development and global equity.
