is Professor for Urban Ecology at the Landscape School in HSR Rapperswil and a lecturer at ETH D-USYS and D-ARCH where he teaches the Urban Ecology elective for the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. He studied environmental science at ETH Zurich obtaining a PhD there on the topic of plant ecology and is currently teaching ecology under global climate change. His research focuses on urban ecology in anthopogenic landscapes, and the ecology of the anthropocene.