Stephan Zähringer is a consultant to Tufts CSDD and has collaborated with the Tufts CSDD team on a variety of projects looking at simplifying and improving protocol design and minimizing participant and investigative site burden. Stephan was a Senior Pharma Business Analyst at Roche for six years and led a workstream focusing on optimizing and automating clinical trial and regulatory processes. Prior to Roche, Stephan led client user experience and usability projects at HCI Institute's UX Lab at University of Basel. He holds a BSc and an MSc in Applied Psychology with a Major in Human Factors from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.