I am a lecturer at Department of Geography, University of Zurich (UZH), where I lead the health geography group. My research focuses on digital spatial epidemiological approaches to health outcomes particularly in urban contexts. I earned my PhD in geography from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany in 2011. I serve as the director of the international summer school program on digital spatial epidemiology and I also lead the Swiss School of Public Health course on Big Data in Public Health. Furthermore, I am a research fellow with the UZH Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health (UD/MH), with the Competence Centre for Mental Health (CCMH), and with the UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI). Memberships include the Swiss Society of Psychiatric Epidemiology, German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, German Society for Epidemiology, and the Researcher's Network of the International Geographical Union (IGU), Commission on Health and the Environment.