Prof. Dr. Christoph Zangger

Profile

Prof. Dr. Christoph Zangger Dozent

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Wednesday morning
    Thursday
    Friday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Institut Applied Data Science & Finance
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Activities

  • 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

  • BSc Digital Business and AI

  • BSc Business Administration

  • BSc International Business Administration

  • SBD2

  • SBD3

  • SAD2

  • SAD3

  • WBTH

Research

  • Spatial Data Science

  • Causal Inference and Counterfactual Modelling

  • Network Analysis

  • Experiments and Decision Analysis

  • Choice Modeling

  • Discrete Choice Experiments

  • Neighborhood Effects & Urban Change

  • Social Networks and Multiplier Effects

CV

  • 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
  • 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

For outstanding teaching at the University of Bern

European Survey Research Association

Best dissertation / habilitation at the University of Bern

Research Networks RN21 "Quantitative Methods" of the European Sociological Association

European Urban Research Association