Nicole Bender, PD MD, PhD, MSc, FMH
- Head Clinical Evolutionary Medicine Group
- Phone: +41 44 635 05 31 (Room Y42 G13)
- Presence: Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday
Biography
Academic Degrees
| 2025 | Titular professorship in Clinical Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2019 | PD Venia legendi (Habilitation) in Clinical Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2013 | Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education (CAS) Hochschuldidaktik, University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 2010 | Medical specialisation in Prevention and Public Health SGPG (Fachärztin für Prävention und Gesundheitswesen FMH) | |
| 2009 | MSc Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and University of London, UK | |
| 2006 | MD-PhD, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 2004 | MD (Dr. med.), Institute of History of Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 1998 | Medical degree, University of Bern, Switzerland |
Previous apointments
| 01.06.14-30.04.16 | Co-Director of the SSPH+ PhD Program, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 01.01.14 – 30.04.16 | Head teaching office, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 01.10.05 – 30.04.16 | Research fellow and teaching coordinator, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 01.10.02 – 30.09.05 | PhD student, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 15.06.02 – 30.09.02 | Specialist registrar, psychiatry University of Bern, Suprax 1 and 2, Biel | |
| 01.11.01 – 14.06.02 | Project leader, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland | |
| 01.05.99 – 31.10.01 | Specialist registrar, psychiatry University of Bern, Clinic Selhofen Kehrsatz and Project CleaNex Bern | |
| 01.03.99 – 30.04.99 | Specialist registrar, internal medicine, Bezirksspital Langnau |
Research Interests
- The evolution of human nutrition and body composition
- Obesity and related diseases
- Evolutionary Public Health
- Human adaptation to novel environments and mismatch diseases
- Clinical Evolutionary Medicine
- Teaching methods and didactics in Evolutionary Medicine
Current Research Projects
- Sex and age differences in anthropometrics and body composition in the general population - cohort study
- Sex and age differences in anthropometrics and body composition in athletes - cohort study
- Associaton between nutrition and health outcomes
- Association between different risk factors and health outcomes from the evolutionay point of view
