Sustainability · Automation · Impact

Philipp Ladner

Automation for good.

Environmental Data Scientist and creative problem solver building robust data pipelines, automation, and data-based applications for mission-driven organizations.

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Abilities

What I do best:

Applying cutting edge technology combined with environmental systems thinking to create new solutions.

Data & AI systems

  • End-to-end data pipelines: acquisition, validation, transformation, storage (sql-based) and delivery
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for large document collections with source grounding
  • LLM-based validation, rule-based QA, and agent-style automation workflows

Data quality & reliability

  • Automated anomaly detection, completeness checks, and data lineage concepts
  • Monitoring and alerting for data drift, broken pipelines, and SLA breaches
  • Designing quality checks that balance rigor with operational feasibility

Document intelligence

  • Large-scale parsing and structuring of unstructured documents (PDFs, reports, filings)
  • Embeddings, vector search, and knowledge-aware retrieval
  • Converting narrative-heavy sources into analytics-ready datasets

Decision support & analytics

  • Statistical & mathematical modelling, simulation, and sensitivity analysis
  • Building interactive dashboards.
  • User-friendly, auto-refreshing visualizations tied to live or batch data sources

EXPERIENCE

May 2024 – Nov 2025 · Zürich

Data Scientist

LLM validation, RAG pipelines, data QA automation, ESG analytics.

Python SQL QA LLMOps RAG Embeddings/FAISS LangChain LlamaIndex APIs ESG analytics

Mar 2022 – Aug 2022 · Zürich

Policy & Economics Intern

Policy evaluation, surveys, ESG indicators, stakeholder reports.

Qual & quant research Survey design Climate/Energy policy ESG indicators Data analysis PowerBI Reporting

Sep 2019 – Jan 2020 · Dübendorf

Research Intern

Agent-based modelling, socio-technical systems, policy/actor analysis.

Python Sensitivity analysis Agent-based modelling Simulation Socio-technical analysis Documentation

EDUCATION

2025

Online education

Courses completed: LangChain: Chat with Your Data · Knowledge Graphs for RAG · Generative AI with Large Language Models.

RAG LangChain Knowledge graphs Prompt engineering LLMs NLP Python PyTorch GenAI system design Responsible AI

2024

M.Sc. Data Science (15KP)

Enrolled to strengthen theoretical foundations; discontinued due to mandatory in-person attendance requirements.

Applied Statistics and Data Analysis Predictive Modelling Bayesian Machine Learning Advanced Deep Learning Management of Complex Processes

2020 – 2022

M.Sc. Environmental Sciences

Environmental economics, policy evaluation, governance, quantitative policy analysis, scientific writing.

Env. economics CBA Policy evaluation Mathematical optimisation Data-driven management Research writing

2016 – 2019

B.Sc. Environmental Sciences

Quantitative, interdisciplinary training across natural sciences, economics, and data analysis.

Systems analysis Statistics Python & R Policy Mathematics Physics Modelling

SEL. PROJECTS

App development · 2025

Lorey: location audio mixtape

Programming and designing a smartphone app for place-based voice notes.

Flutter Android Studio Xcode (Apple) Codex Supabase
Lorey app preview

Policy · 2022 – 2023

Policy evaluations & stakeholder research

Co-authored a federal program evaluation (“Leute für Lonza”): effectiveness, legal foundations, institutional design, and lessons for crisis management.

Policy evaluation Interviews Stakeholder analysis Legal review Crisis governance Reporting

Master Thesis · 2021 – 2022

Food-tax carbon modelling

Evaluated GHG taxation of food; compared LCA-based proposals to a custom optimization model under uncertainty.

CBA Welfare economics Optimization Monte Carlo Economic modelling LCA review

Optimisation · 2019 – 2020

Water systems agent simulation

Governance analysis and agent-based decision modelling for wastewater infrastructure.

ABM Python simulation Sensitivity analysis Governance Policy research

CURR. PROJECTS

Contact

Let’s collaborate

Open to project-based, freelance, contract, or full-time roles.

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Philipp Ladner

Automation for good.

Location Zürich, Switzerland