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Student Assistants
Mona Gairing
Mona is a student assistant in the Spatial Development and Urban Policy group since April 2023. She obtained her bachelors degree in Environmental Sciences from ETH Zurich. Currently, Mona is a master student in Environmental Sciences with a focus on Forest and Landscape Management at ETH Zurich.
Jan Osusky
Jan Osusky is part of the SPUR Team since 2022 and supports the project "Densifying Switzerland". He received a Bachelor of Science in Geospatial Engineering at ETH Zurich.
Jake Stephan
Jake Stephan is a student assistant in the Spatial Development and Urban Policy group since October 2021. He obtained his bachelor degree from Indiana University-Bloomington in Political Science and Philosophy. He is currently a master student at the Center for Comparative and International Study at ETH Zurich.
Emily Robitschek
Emily started as a student assistant in the Spatial Development and Urban Policy group in October 2021. She obtained her bachelors degree in Biochemistry with honors from Colorado State University, and conducted research in the biomedical and genomics fields before following her curiosity outside the laboratory to study some of the frameworks and issues that affect human health in a broader sense like living conditions in cities, climate change, and policies that translate scientific discoveries into social impact. Currently, Emily is a master student at the Institute for Science, Technology and Policy at ETH Zürich.
Mala Walz
Mala Walz is a research assistant in the Spatial Development and Urban Policy group at ETH Zurich since June 2020. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Zurich. During her Bachelor studies, she also worked as a tutor for the modules "Political Systems and Theory 1 and 2" at the Department of Political Science. Mala Walz is currently enrolled as a master student in Political Science with a minor in Sociology at the University of Zurich.
Former SPUR members
Dr. Ana Peric Momcilovic
Ana Peric supported the SPUR team as the lead of the project «Dense and Green Cities: Emerging Models of Integrated Urban Development», among other projects. In 2022, she left SPUR to pursue her new position as an external pageAssistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at the University College Dublin.
Sophie Hauller
Sophie Hauller has been a student assistant at the SPUR team since June 2020. In 2023, she is finishing her studies in the ETH master program Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems at ETH Zürich.
Dr. Stefan Wittwer
Since 2020, Stefan Wittwer has supported the SPUR team as the lead of the projects "Densifying Switzerland" and "Urban Planning for Sustainable Development". In 2022, he left the SPUR team to pursue a career at the Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE.
Dominique Strebel
At SPUR, Dominique Strebel has been particularly involved in research on "Sanctuary Cities in Europe" and "Urban Migration Policies". In 2021, she began her studies in medicine at the University of Zurich. external pageLinkedIn