Daniel Villiger

Research

Current research project: Motivatonal Change

Since 02/2025	Postdoc (SNSF), University of Zurich
2024	Submission of Habilitation for obtaining the Venia Legendi in Philosophy at the University of Zurich
2024 – 2025	Postdoc.Mobility (SNSF), University of Oxford
2023 – 2024	Postdoc (SNSF), University of Zurich
2020 – 2022	PhD in Philosophy, University of Zurich (Title: Essays on Transformative Experiences)
2016 – 2020	PhD in Behavioral Economics, University of St. Gallen (Title: Dissecting Discrimination – Identifying Its Various Faces and Their Sources)
2018 – 2020	MSc Psychology, University of Zurich
2018 – 2019	CAS Teaching in Higher Education, University of St. Gallen
2014 – 2018	BSc Psychology (Minor Sociology; Astronomy & Astrobiology), University of Zurich
2015 – 2016	MA International Affairs and Governance, University of St. Gallen
2011 – 2014	BA Economics, University of St. Gallen

2022
- Dissertation
  - Villiger, Daniel. Essays on Transformative Experiences. 2022, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät.
- Monograph
  - Villiger, Daniel (2022). Dissecting discrimination: identifying its various faces and their sources. Wiesbaden: Springer.
- Scientific Publication in Electronic Form
  - Villiger, Daniel; Ullrich, Johannes; Krueger, Joachim (2022). Probabilities of cooperative moves in all 67 symmetric ordinal two-player two-moves games. Berlin: ResearchEquals.
2021
- Journal Article
  - Villiger, Daniel (2021). A rational route to transformative decisions. Synthese, 199(5-6):14535-14553.