Researchers at the Faculty of Business and Economics

Prof. Dr Manuel Grieder Dean / Programme direction of the Master in Economics, Business and Data Analytics / Associate Professor

Prof. Dr Michael Kurschilgen Vice-dean / Programme direction for the Bachelor in Business and Economics (French and German) / Associate Professor

Prof. Anthony Strittmatter Vice-Rector for Research / Full Professor

Prof. Dr Philine Widmer Associate Professor

Philine Widmer is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics at UniDistance Suisse. She studies how news media, social media, and artificial intelligence relate to politics and the economy. In parallel, she builds the methods this research depends on: econometric and machine-learning tools for learning from unstructured data such as text, images, and video.

PhD Tommaso Coen Post-doctoral Researcher

PhD Manon Delvaux Postdoc

MSc Emma Bacci Teaching and research assistant

MSc Vitor Krasniqi PhD Student

MA Beat Scherrer PhD Student

Academic Events

Economics

UNITE event organised by the Faculty of Business and Economics

UniDistance Suisse

Friday, October 16, 2026 11:00 - 15:00 (CEST+2)

Economics

Economics Research Seminar

UniDistance Suisse

Monday, October 19, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 (CEST+2)

Monday, October 26, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 (CET+1)

Economics

ECO Brownbag

UniDistance Suisse

Monday, November 2, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 (CET+1)

Economics

Economics Research Seminar

UniDistance Suisse

Monday, November 9, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 (CET+1)

Monday, November 16, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 (CET+1)

Economics

Economics Research Seminar

UniDistance Suisse

Monday, December 7, 2026 12:00 - 13:00 (CET+1)

B18.005, Brig Campus

Research groups in Business and Economics

Behavioural, Organisational and Environmental Economics

Building on theoretical models and empirical insights from economics, management, and psychology, the research group uses experimental (and other) methods to investigate current research topics in organisational and…

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Behavioral Economics and Institutional Design

In the light of inherent empirical and/or normative uncertainty, the research group studies how institutions – e.g. laws, conventions, information – guide human behavior, and affect social outcomes like cooperation, truthful…

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Economic Data Science

Welcome to the Economic Data Science research group! Our team specialises in causal analysis, machine learning and social data science. We use large administrative and other 'big' datasets to provide insights for public and…

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