Martin Soland studied psychology, sociology and linguistics at the University of Zurich (UZH) and graduated in 2006. He then worked as a project assistant at MRC Marketing Research and Consulting (Zug) and at the Social Research Centre of the UZH until he started a PhD project at the Department of Psychology of the UZH on a topic of social and environmental psychology. Most recently, Martin Soland was Senior Researcher at the University of Applied Psychology FHNW (Olten), where he researched customer needs in the context of the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050. Since September 2018, he has been working as a project manager at the UZH Evaluation Office.