Team

Mario Angst

Dr. Mario Angst is a postdoc at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich. His research focuses on the interplay between digitalization and sustainability transformations, governance networks and policy-making in the Anthropocene. He is currently focusing on the use of machine learning and natural language processing algorithms to map sustainability governance networks and discourses.

Myriam Pham-Truffert

Myriam Pham-Truffert is a PhD student at the Digital Society Initiative and the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich. Her PhD thesis is about the use of gamification and participatory modeling to gather data on contextualized, local level interactions between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Neitah Noemi Müller

Neitah Noemi Müller is a research assistant at the Digital Society Initiative and a Master’s student in religion, economy and politics at the University of Zurich. For her master’s thesis, she plans to focus on religious actors in the context of the SDGs and with computational methods. Neitah could imagine doing a PhD afterwards, deepening on religion in connection with currently relevant topics such as sustainability, digitalization, or social media.

Viviane Walker

Viviane Walker is a research assistant at the Digital Society Initiative supporting the sustainability.discourses research team. She is currently in her second year of her Master’s in Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich and is working on her Master’s thesis about the employment of large language models for stance detection.