Biography
Academic degrees
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 appointments
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
- The health impact of a vegan diet on children - systematic review
- Diets and health outcomes - systematic review and network meta-analysis
- Reviewing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by using an evolutionary view
- Sex and age differences in hydration and body composition in patients with musculoskeletal disorders and in controls - cohort study
- Online-Tool Mummy Explorer
- COVID-19 Sequelae - systematic review