Moritz Hoferer

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This CV summarizes my experience as a data analyst, my academic background, and the main stages of my professional path. My research and projects are documented separately.

Experience

Roles across analytics, research, teaching, and consulting.

Since 2022

Data Analyst

Betty BossiZurich, Switzerland

Details

Business owner for data cloud and BI solution with responsibilities across analytics strategy, data engineering/science, and stakeholder support.

Full-time
  • Business owner for the data cloud and BI tools landscape across GCP and Looker.
  • Development and implementation of a data and analytics strategy.
  • Data engineering work using Dataform.
  • Ad-hoc analyses and stakeholder sparring with BigQuery, Python, and Looker Studio.
  • Development of customer KPIs and ML models for ranking and scoring with BigQuery ML and Vertex AI.
  • BI engineering with LookML and dashboard implementation and maintenance in Looker, Looker Studio, and Power BI.
  • Coordination of development, change requests, and data quality control for the data cloud.

2017 - 2022

Research Associate

ETH ZurichZurich, Switzerland

Details

Research, teaching, and academic coordination in political economy and complex systems.

Full-time
  • Organization of workshops and conferences.
  • Teaching, exam supervision and correction, and peer review.
  • IT user management, complete hardware switch, technical expansion of lecture rooms.

Sep 2015 - Mar 2016

Teaching Assistant

Ludwig Maximilians University MunichMunich, Germany

Details

Weekly teaching support in theoretical physics and mechanics.

Part-time
  • Supported the courses 'Mathematical Methods of Theoretical Physics' and 'Mechanics'.
  • Led weekly exercise classes, corrected exercises and exams, and presented the examination review course.

Sep 2014 - Apr 2015

Intern

KPMG AG WirtschaftspruefungsgesellschaftMunich, Germany

Details

Project support in financial services with an emphasis on operations, risk, and analysis.

Full-time
  • Project work in Financial Services with a focus on Strategy and Operations and Financial Risk Management.
  • Worked on PMO, controlling, data processing and analysis, portfolio analysis, and user acceptance tests.

Education

Physics, economics, and interdisciplinary quantitative research.

2017 - 2022

Ph.D. in Economics

ETH ZurichZurich, Switzerland

Details

Doctoral work on opinion formation in politics, combining theory, computation, and empirical processing.

  • 'Essays on opinion formation in politics' supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans Gersbach.
  • Theoretical modeling, numerical and analytical analyses, web scraping, and data cleaning and processing with pandas.
  • Coursework including network science, machine learning, NLP, agent-based modeling, and micro- and macroeconomics.

2016 - 2017

Master Thesis in Theoretical Biophysics

University of MilanMilan, Italy

Details

Thesis work in stochastic modeling, simulation, and data visualization in biophysics.

Grade: 1.0 / "very good"
  • 'Statistical physics of lipid raft formation in cell membranes' supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefano Zapperi.
  • Stochastic modeling in C++, molecular dynamics simulations, and analysis of experimental data.
  • Data visualization with Python, NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib.

Technical Skills and Languages

Programming, analytics, software tools, and working languages.

Programming and Data

PythonSQLLookMLGitBashRMathematicaC++

Applications

Microsoft 365LaTeXConfluenceJira

Languages

German (native)English (business fluent)Italian (intermediate)

Social and Extracurricular Activities

Selected activities outside core academic and professional roles.

2015 - 2018

Scholarships and Career Networks

youtrex, e-fellows, and careerloftGermany

Participation in scholarship and career-development programs for German-speaking high-potential candidates.

Nov 2016 - Dec 2016

Case Competitions

Germany and Austria

Participated in the WFI Consulting Cup and won the Pitch Challenge organized by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

1999 - 2005

Vocal Performance

Tölzer KnabenchorEurope and the United States

Performed in choral and solo settings as part of the boys' choir.