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Researchers

Researchers at UniDistance Suisse are advancing knowledge across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including Law, Psychology, Business and Economics, History, Mathematics and e-learning.

Meet our scholars at every stage of the academic journey: full professors, associate professors, assistant professors, postdoctoral researchers, and PhD candidates.

Full Professors

Prof. Dr David Loeffler
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Prof. Dr Bruno Pasquier
Faculty of Law
Portrait of Andrea Samson
Prof. Dr Andrea Samson
Faculty of Psychology
Portrait de Christina Späti
Prof. Dr Christina Späti
Faculty of History
Prof. Anthony Strittmatter
Rectorate

Associate Professors

Pamela Banta
Prof. Dr Pamela Banta Lavenex
Faculty of Psychology
Portrait de Géraldine Coppin
Prof. Dr Géraldine Coppin
Géraldine Coppin is an Associate Professor since February 2020. She was Assistant Professor in Psychology at UniDistance Suisse from January 2018 till January 2020 before being tenured. 
Faculty of Psychology
Prof. Dr Tino Endres
Tino Endres is an Associate Professor of Psychology at UniDistance Suisse. He directs the Educational Psychology Lab and conducts fundamental research on cognitive, motivational, and metacognitive processes related to learning with complex and digital materials.
Faculty of Psychology
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Prof. Dr Manuel Grieder
Faculty of Business and Economics
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Prof. Dr Cathrine Konopatsch
Faculty of Law
Prof. Dr Michael Kurschilgen
Faculty of Business and Economics
Prof. Dr Matthias Maalouli-Hartmann
Faculty of Psychology
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Prof. Dr Corinna Martarelli
Rectorate
Prof. Dr Thomas Mettler
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Prof. Dr Thomas Reber
Faculty of Psychology
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Prof. Dr Nicolas Rothen
Professor Nicolas Rothen is Rector and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Psychology at UniDistance Suisse.
Rectorate
Prof. Dr Bernhard C. Schär
Research GroupsGlobal History of Europe and SwitzerlandA Collaborative History of Global Switzerland
Faculty of History
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Prof. Dr Matthias Voigt
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Prof. Dr Philine Widmer
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.
Faculty of Business and Economics

Assistant Professors

Prof. Dr David Belius
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Portrait Nicolas Bueno
Prof. Dr Nicolas Bueno
Nicolas Bueno is professor at the Faculty of Law. He teaches Public International Law and European Law.
Faculty of Law
Prof. Dr Julia Chatain
Interdisciplinary researcher in educational technologies, seeking to understand how technology should be designed to help students grasp abstract concepts.
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Prof. Dr Nula Katharina Frei
Faculty of Law
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Prof. Dr Thierry Godel
DPPC Journal 
Faculty of Law
Prof. Dr Sabine Pitteloud
Faculty of History

Post-doctoral Researchers

Dr Victoria Abrahamyan
Dr Nicolo Alessi
Dr Alessandro Ambrosino
Dr Lorène Anthonioz
Dr Michael Balmer
Drrer.nat. Lisa Bender
Dr Cristina Berchio
Dr Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma
Dr Natalie Borter
Dr Martin Brandenstein
Dr Simon Briend
Dr Alain Butler
Dr Lucia-Manuela Cantonas
PhD Loïc Chareyron
PhD Tommaso Coen
PhD Manon Delvaux
Dr Mirela Dittrich-Dubravac
Dr iur. Richard Ehmann
Dr Benjamin Enz
Dr Keegan Flood
Veronica Frigerio
Dr Maximilian Haas
Dr Darias Holgado
Dr iur. Elisabeth Joller
Dr Rémy Lachelin
Dr Seraina Lerch
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Dr Sophie Mantzouranis-Baudat
Dr Luca Mastella
Dr Maëlan Menétrey
Dr Alessandro Miani
Dr Ana Milosavljevic
Dr Caroline Montebello
Dr Aurore Müller
PhD Maria Giuseppina Chiara Nestola
Olivia Piguet
Dr Alodie Rey-Mermet
Dr Michael Rihs
Dr Ulrike Rimmele
Dr Simon Ruch
Dr Chhavi Sachdeva
Dr Yvonne Schüpbach
Dr rer. nat. Julia Schütze
Dr Linli Shi
PD Dr Kurt Stocker
Dr iur., LL.M. Rafael Studer
Dr Nikolaos Tsipinakis
Dr Bogdan Vlasenko
Dr Anastasios Ziogas
Dr Petru Emanuel Zlatescu
Dr Patrick Zulian

PhD students

MSc Sam Ahmad
MSc Andrea Angino
MSc Emma Bacci
Ambroise Baillifard
MA Izabel Barros
MSc Diletta Bartolini
MLaw Yasmin Bellazrak-Dinari
Pauline Berthouzoz
MSc Seraina Bohren
Lucas Dall'Olio
Msc Marie-Sarah Didier
MA Naomi Denzer
MSc Magali Dumureau
LLM Law Ana Carla Farrèr Gonçalves
MSC Luca Giudici
MLaw Michèle Nora Hurter
lic. iur. Lydia Kalbermatter
M Sc Niels Oliver Kempkens
MSc Vitor Krasniqi
MSc Tobias Kühlwein
MA Sophie Küsterling
MLaw Hélène Labarraque
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MA Alexandra Lapteva
Msc Dwayne Lieck
MSc Tobias Liechti
MLaw María Leticia Mariño von Hildebrand
MSc Valentine Martin-Savary
Sandy C. Marca
MSc Tim Maruhn
MSc Cheyenne Mauriello
MSc Laura Moreno
BSc Petra Müller
Vanessa Radtke
MSc Roman Rakov
MSc Laura Rotheichner
MSc Chiara Samatanga
MSc ETH Math. Alois Schaffler
MA Beat Scherrer
lic. phil. Michael Schmitz
MSc Kevin Schwab
Msc Théo Vernede
MSc Charlotte Vössing
MSc Raul Wildbolz-Gallego
MA Nick Zenzünen
M Law Laura Zermatten