Sustainability · Automation · Impact

Philipp Ladner

Automation for good.

Environmental Data Scientist and creative problem solver. Specialized in AI-driven data pipelines, automation, and data-based applications for impact-oriented 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

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

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

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

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

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