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Experience

M.Sc. Psychology (UZH) and M.Sc. Applied Information and Data Science (HSLU, December 2026). Working student in data science at Zurich Insurance. Open to full-time roles from January 2027.

Work

Nov 2025 – now
Zürich

Working student, data science & project management Now

Zurich Insurance
  • Support two teams in sales steering: Sales Academy, and Sales Steering & Analytics
  • Help build a data landscape and Power BI dashboards for data-driven decisions
  • Run the mailbox for questions about the sales-steering dashboard landscape
  • Ad-hoc descriptive analyses
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025
Zürich

Working student, insights

Helsana
  • Designed, ran and presented studies for different stakeholders on my own
  • Compared leading Swiss market research institutes, focusing on online panels
  • Supported projects such as testing prototypes of new UX/UI features
  • Manually coded customer feedback and compared it with automatic coding using BERTopic
May 2024 – Mar 2025
Zürich

Freelancer, on call

TX Group
  • Continued market research work on demand after the internship
Nov 2023 – Apr 2024
Zürich

Intern, market research

TX Group
  • Supported project leads in delivering client projects
  • Prepared, analysed and visualised key figures
  • Built, analysed and presented questionnaires
  • Documented qualitative interviews and created user journeys
Jul 2019 – Nov 2019
Zürich Airport

Aircraft cabin cleaner (temporary)

Vebego Airport
  • Cleaned long-haul aircraft interiors in the short window between landing and boarding
  • Rotated between aircraft in a small team, covering waste, galley, floors and more

Education

Sep 2024 – Dec 2026
Lucerne

M.Sc. Applied Information and Data Science Now

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (HSLU)
  • Part-time programme, graduating December 2026
  • Thesis: Leveraging double machine learning for robust decision-making (supervisor: Dr. Claude Renaux)
  • Preliminary study graded 6
2021 – 2024
Zürich

M.Sc. Psychology

University of Zurich (UZH)
  • Average grade 5.6
  • Thesis on the neuronal basis of learning in young people with psychiatric disorders, graded 6
Read the thesis summary
2018 – 2021
Zürich

B.Sc. Psychology

University of Zurich (UZH)
  • Average grade 5.5
  • Minor in film studies
  • Thesis on machine learning for Alzheimer's classification, graded 6
Read the thesis summary

Theses

Master's thesis, data science (ongoing)

Leveraging double machine learning for robust decision-making

Due December 2026 · preliminary study graded 6

Supervised by Dr. Claude Renaux

Master's thesis, psychology

Investigating the neuronal basis of learning processes and memory formation in children and adolescents with various psychiatric disorders

Grade 6

Supervised by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Langer, M.Sc. Dawid Strzelczyk

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Bachelor's thesis, psychology

Comparison between support vector machine and convolutional neural network for Alzheimer's disease classification

Grade 6

Supervised by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Langer

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Skills & languages

Programming

  • R (very good)
  • Python (good)
  • Matlab (good)
  • SQL (good basics)

Analytics & BI

  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • SPSS
  • Excel

Writing & publishing

  • Quarto
  • RStudio
  • LaTeX
  • Markdown

German

  • Bilingual, fluent spoken and written

English

  • Bilingual, fluent spoken and written

French

  • Intermediate

Certificates

April 2024

Advanced Learning Algorithms

DeepLearning.AI & Stanford University (Coursera)
January 2024

Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification

DeepLearning.AI & Stanford University (Coursera)
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OLIVER ZINGG

Psychologist and data scientist in Zürich. I design the study, model the data and explain what it means.

STATUS
Open to full-time data science roles from January 2027
NOW
Working student, data science & project management at Zurich Insurance (since Nov 2025)
THESIS
M.Sc. thesis (HSLU): leveraging double machine learning for robust decision-making, due December 2026
EDUCATION
M.Sc. Psychology (UZH, 5.6) · M.Sc. Applied Information & Data Science (HSLU, Dec 2026)
TOOLS
R, Python, SQL, Matlab · Power BI, Tableau · mixed models, ML, BERTopic

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  1. Learning and memory formation in children and adolescents with psychiatric disordersMaster's thesis, UZH · 2023
  2. Support vector machines vs. CNNs for Alzheimer's disease classificationBachelor's thesis, UZH · 2021
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