Dr Mario Angst

Dr Mario Angst is a lecturer at the Institute Urban Landscape at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, where he teaches policy and data science to architecture students. His research focuses on sustainability transformations, policy-making in the Anthropocene and digitalisation, particularly in urban contexts – using natural language processing, Bayesian modelling and network analysis, often combined with qualitative approaches in interdisciplinary teams.

From 2021 to 2025 he led the sustainability.discourses project at the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich and co-led the DSI community on sustainable digitalisation. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Eawag and WSL. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Bern (2019).