Born in 1966, Swiss nationality, married with 4 children
PhD in Economics at the University of Z眉rich. Professor,economist specialized in public health, health insurance, health and social policy research.
From 1999 to 2014: scientific director of the MAS program Net-MEGS, from 2008 to 2014 as chair of the Summer School in Public Health Policy, Economics and Management. Since 2004 he has been active as health policy analyst. During 3 years he has been part of the advisory committee of the Swiss conference of cantonal health ministers and since 2013 he has been member of the experts committee of the National health policy strategy "Gesundheit2020". He is on the editorial board of: Health Policy, Politiche Sanitarie and the International Journal of Public Health.
Public health, health and social policy research, health insurance, economics. In addition to the task of head of Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care, he keeps the activity of professor at Department of Economics at USI.
AIES-Prize 2002 for young researchers in health economics