Curriculum Vitae - Hafl

Curriculum Vitae
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WÄLTI MAUMIER
Pascale
20.05.1971
Swiss
Married, 2 children
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Address:
School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL )
Laenggasse 85, CH-3052 Zollikofen, Switzerland
http://www.hafl.bfh.ch
Tel:
+41 31 910 22 16
E-mail: [email protected]
Mobile +41 76 562 64 22
Fax:
+41 31 910 22 99
Languages:
French (mother tongue)
English (good, spoken & written)
German (good, spoken & written)
Spanish, Italian (little)
Main competences
Agricultural engineer and biologist with PhD, specialised in livestock sciences (with focus on pasto ralism and agropastoralism) and international agriculture.
10 years experience in development cooperation and agronomy, 4 years field work in Africa
Scientific collaborator at HAFL
- Education: Coordination of the problem based learning and teaching in specific agronomic topics.
Development of farmer field schools in Africa
- Project management in international agriculture
- Coordinating bioenergy research activities
Specific experience in:
Agronomy and animal production
Participatory project development and management in smallholder livestock, pastoralism and agropastoralism, crop production, herder-farmer conflict and bioenergy
Institutional development
Fundraising, NGO management, quality management, networking
Education
Designing and conducting training/teaching courses in Switzerland and Africa.
- Various agronomic topics (inclusive development of farmer field schools)
- Project and NGO management
- Moderation and information management
- Intercultural communication
- Coordination of the Problem Based Learning (PBL) curriculum at HAFL
- Training and coaching of volunteers going abroad
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HAFL - Hochschule für Agrar-, Forst- und Lebensmittelwissenschaften, a department of the Bern University of Applied Sciences Berner Fachhochschule (BFH)
Academic education and further education
2001-2003
Diploma in International Agriculture
HAFL (ex-Swiss College of Agriculture) in Zollikofen, Switzerland
1995-2000
PhD in biology (Rerum Naturalium Doctorem)
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
1989-1995
Diploma ETHZ in Biology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland
Professional experience
Since April 2008
(50%)
HAFL, Zollikofen, Switzerland
Scientific collaborator in International Agriculture
Since Sept. 2010 Coordination of the RéseauBénévolatNetzwerk (competence center for
(20%)
the NGOs in Fribourg)
2007-2009
EIRENE Suisse, Geneva
Improvement of the preparation and monitoring of volunteers, development of a training curriculum
2004-2007
Réseau d'Action, de Partage et de Solidarité (RAPS) and EIRENE Suisse, Chad
Institutional and technical adviser in NGO management and animal production, program development and management in smallholder livestock production, on-farm
seed production, conflict resolution in herder-farmer conflict and common natural resource management, development of farmer field schools in animal production and
other advisory services for farmers and livestock keepers
2004-2006
HAFL (ex-Swiss College of Agriculture), Zollikofen, Switzerland
Teaching of two modules on animal production in the tropics
2003-2004:
Agricultural Institute of Grangeneuve (FR), Switzerland
Research and teaching assistant. Feeding trials with piglets and sheep. Monitoring
of fire blight
June-July 03
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, Basel, Switzerland
Assessment of the results of a project for improving milk production of goats in
Mali
April-Sept 02
Institute of rural economy, Mali
Practical training at the Agricultural Research Station in Cinzana, Mali. Exploratory
study on milk production and consumption in Cinzana. On-farm trial for improving
milk production of goats
August-Oct 01
Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux (ALP), Switzerland
Practical work. Collaboration to a digestibility trial with sheep
2000-2001
Farm H-J Hintermann, Dürrenäsch (AG), Switzerland
One year of practical work on a mixed crop-dairy farm
1995-2000
Institute of Physiology, Fribourg, Switzerland
Research and teaching assistant. Research on the electophysiology o f Dopamine
Neurones in Macaques and teaching of physiology to medical students.
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Missions, short-term assignments and mandates
04-06/2012 Switzerland
and Kenya
Consultancy work on range land management of pastoral and agro-pastoral
small holders in arid lowlands and resilience of their livelihoods
10-12/ 2011 Chad
Bilan prospectif du domaine économie rurale de la DDC au Tchad
09/2011
Switzerland
Food Security + DRR Workshop in Rüttihubelbad
Facilitation an input in the workshop “Risk management in Agriculture / Adaptation of Farming Systems” on Seed systems and resilience of animal production
systems
03/2011
Morocco
Project planning for the participatory development of technologies and provision
of rural advisory services for the semi-arid area of the region of Sidi-Bennour, in
collaboration with the INRA-Settat and N’Terractive
01/2010
Morocco
Mission of identification of a pilot project on the valorisation of local plants
adapted to semi-arid zones for the socio-economic development in the SidiBennour area, for the NGO N'Terractive (Neuchâtel)
Jan-Dec
2009
Switzerland
Development of a curriculum for the training of volunteers going abroad (co llaboration between E-Changer, Bethlehem-Mission Immensee, EIRENE and
GVOM)
Activities in professional platforms
Since Oct
2009
Switzerland
Member of the Quality management commission of Unité
Since July
2009
Switzerland
Member of the technical commission of FribourgSolidaire
Since July
2007
Switzerland
Steering Committee Member of Eirenesuisse (chair in 2010-2011)
Recent Publications
Waelti P, Dickinson A and Schultz W, 2001. Dopamine response comply with basic assumptions of formal
learning theory. Nature 412, p.43-48.
Waelti P, 2000. Activité des neurones dopaminergiques dans une tâche de discrimination et de blocage
chez le primate vigile. Thèse de doctorat n° 1298. Imprimerie St Paul, Fribourg, pp 150.
Waelti P and Schultz W, 1999. Activity of primate dopamine neurons in a discrimination and blocking
paradigm. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 25, p. 1161
Waelti P et Koné I, 2003. Intensification de la production caprine et amélioration des revenus agricoles
des exploitations de la commune de Cinzana (Mali). Rapport final pour le compte de la Fondation Novartis, pp 32.
Waelti P, 2003. Contribution de l'élevage au revenu des exploitations de la Commune de Cinzana (Mali):
une analyse socioéconomique. Travail de diplôme. Haute Ecole Suisse d'Agronomie, pp 84.
Zollikofen, Switzerland, June 2012 / Pascale Waelti Maumier
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