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I am an environmental scientist (Univ. of Bayreuth), management scientist (LSE London), and ethnobotanist (ETH Zurich). As a researcher, project coordinator and international civil servant, I have a broad experience in intercultural collaborative processes between stakeholders from different disciplinary, sectoral and cultural backgrounds. This skill set enables me to effectively build and support stakeholder coalitions at the interface of research, policy and international development, and between the fields of sustainability and health.
Since 2012, I am active in building, conducting and coordinating intercultural transdisciplinary collaborations at the interface of traditional and western medicine in Latin America, mainly funded by ETH Zurich, the COGITO foundation and the Swiss National Science Foundation. These projects revolve around ethnobotany, and have a process-oriented perspective on intercultural multi-stakeholder coalitions. As a PostDoc at University of Zurich, I was able to build on this experience, by developing and validating the EVOLvINC tool for assessing the integration of knowledge that is enabled through the governance processes in multi-stakeholder science-policy initiatives. This PostDoc was conducted within the Network for the Evaluation of One Health (NEOH), and in collaboration with the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS). Since 2018, I am 'looking from the policy perspective at the science-policy interface': As plant species officer at the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), I am supporting CITES member states and stakeholders in developing and implementing science-based approaches and regulations that enable the sustainable use botanical resources. I am among the founding team of InteractHealth and continue contributing in an advisory role as a visiting scientist.
My work is published in a variety of formats and fora. Some are accessible online. Please find these, and further information here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-hitziger-2bb83186/
