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 researcher at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zürich and a PhD student at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Bern. Her PhD thesis is about the public perceptions of SDG interactions in Swiss urban transport systems and the systemic effect of technology.

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 is currently analyzing the role and self-perception of religious actors in the context of sustainability transformations.

Viviane Walker

Viviane Walker worked as a research assistant at the Digital Society Initiative supporting the sustainability.discourses research team until February 2025. She wrote her Master’s thesis about the employment of large language models for stance detection in the context of the sustainability.discourses project.