Prof. Dr. Christoph Zangger
Profile
Prof. Dr. Christoph Zangger Dozent
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Contact hours
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday morning
Thursday
Friday -
Address
Berner Fachhochschule
Business School
Institut Applied Data Science & Finance
Brückenstrasse 73
3005 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
Professor for Applied Data Science
Teaching courses in data visualization, ML, social network analysis, text mining
Supervision of BA and MA theses
Focus areas
Contextual effects in decision making, focusing on neighborhood effects and social networks and how they influence outcomes in education, the labor market, health, and political participation
Econometrics and data science, with a particular focus on spatial econometrics to model spatial and social multipliers and the use of ML techniques to model and predict small-scale geographic change
Causal inference and experimental designs, especially discrete choice and other fractional factorial designs and choice modelling techniques, combining experimental data with microsimulation approaches (e.g., labor supply models)
Teaching
Degree programmes
BSc Digital Business and AI
BSc Business Administration
BSc International Business Administration
Subjects
SBD2
SBD3
SAD2
SAD3
WBTH
Research
Specialisations
Spatial Data Science
Causal Inference and Counterfactual Modelling
Network Analysis
Experiments and Decision Analysis
Focus areas
Choice Modeling
Discrete Choice Experiments
Neighborhood Effects & Urban Change
Social Networks and Multiplier Effects
CV
Professional experience
- 2008-2011 Teaching Assistant University of Zurich
- 2010-2013 Student Research Assistant University of Bern
- 2013-2017 Research Assistant University of Bern
- 2017-2022 PostDoc University of Zurich
- 2021-2024 PostDoc / Lecturer LMU Munich
- 2022-2024 SNSF Ambizione University of Bern
Education
- 2011-2013 Master of Arts in Social Sciences University of Zurich
- 2013-2017 PhD in Sociology University of Bern
- 2016-2018 Master of Science (minor) in Mathematical Statistics University of Bern
Projects
Awards
Excellent Teaching Award 2016
For outstanding teaching at the University of Bern
ESRA Early Career Researcher Award 2017
European Survey Research Association
Eduard Adolf Stein Preis 2019
Best dissertation / habilitation at the University of Bern
Young Researcher Award 2020
Research Networks RN21 "Quantitative Methods" of the European Sociological Association
Emerging Scholar Award 2022
European Urban Research Association