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Prof. Dr. Urs Hilber

Prof. Dr. Urs Hilber

Prof. Dr. Urs Hilber

ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Grüentalstrasse 14
8820 Wädenswil

+41 (0) 58 934 59 51
urs.hilber@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

  • Dean
  • Dean School of Life Sciences and Facility Management; Head of ZHAW Sustainable Development

Focus

Leadership and Management in Expert Organizations; Mediation; Consulting and Coaching; Sustainable Development; Planetary Health

Experience

  • Dean
    UASZ
    2007 - today
  • Deputy Director
    Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil
    2006 - 2007
  • Director
    Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing, Viticulture and Horticulture, Wädenswil
    2002 - 2005
  • Managing Director
    Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing, Viticulture and Horticulture, Wädenswil
    2000 - 2001
  • Deputy Director
    Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing, Viticulture and Horticulture, Wädenswil
    1998 - 1999
  • Senior Scientist
    Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing, Viticulture and Horticulture, Wädenswil
    1996 - 1998
  • Lecturer in Plant Pathology incl. Mycology
    Zurich general vocational school; Winterthur
    1993 - 1998
  • Clerk with signature authority
    Swiss Society for Chemical Industries
    1994 - 1996
  • Post Doc Position
    Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing, Viticulture and Horticulture, Wädenswil
    1993 - 1994
  • Post Doc Position in USA
    Cornell University, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, Dept. of Plant Pathology, NY, USA Studies on the molecular mechanism and genetics of Venturia inaequalis resistance to sterol inhibiting fungicides
    1992 - 1993
  • MSc and PhD Positions
    Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing, Viticulture and Horticulture, Wädenswil
    1988 - 1992
  • Research Internship in UK
    Glasshouse Crops Research Institute in Littlehampton (U.K.), Insect Pathology Department Studies on culturing methods of Beauveria bassiana, a fungus used to bio-control Nilparvata lugens
    1987 - 1987
  • Industrial Internship
    Ciba-Geigy AG in Basle
    1986 - 1986

Education and Continuing education

Education

  • PhD, Biology / Comparative studies on genetic variability and fungicide resistance in Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel against vinclozolin and the phenylpyrrole CGA 173506
    University of Basle and Swiss Federal Research Station Wädenswil
    1989 - 1992
  • MSc, Biology / Biology of G. fuscum, Pear trellis rust
    University of Basle and Swiss Federal Research Station Wädenswil
    1988 - 1989
  • Biology I / Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Plant Pathology incl. Mycology
    University of Basle
    1983 - 1989

Continuing Education

Mediator SGO
Swiss Society of Organisation and Management
2004

Network

Membership of networks

Social media

LinkedIn

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
Books and monographs, peer-reviewed
Other publications
Oral conference contributions and abstracts