Curriculum Vitae
Academic Background
- 2006
Postdoctoral lecture qualification ("Habilitation") for Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ulm, Germany
- 1999
Master of Public Health, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- 1996
PhD (Human Biology / Theoretical Medicine)
Faculty of Medicine, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
- 1991
Diploma Human Biology / Theoretical Medicine, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Current Position
- 2019 –
Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Inequalities
- 2014 –
Managing Director of the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Germany
- 2013 –
Full Professor of Social Epidemiology and Head of the Department of Social Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany
Previous Positions
- 2011 – 2013
Head of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Munich, Germany
- 2004 – 2011
Senior Scientist, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim and Munich, Department of Environmental Medicine, Germany
- 2002 – 2004
Assistant Professor at the University of Ulm, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Germany
- 1999 – 2002
Scientist at the GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany
- 1998 – 1999
Research Assistant at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Oberschleißheim, Germany
- 1992 – 1998
Research Assistant at the University Children's Hospital Tübingen, Germany
Selected professional activities
- Since 2018
Member of the board of the Bremen state association for health (Landesvereinigung für Gesundheit Bremen e.V.)
- Since 2016
Appointed member of the Commission on Environmental Medicine and Environmental Public Health of the Federal Ministry of Health at the Robert Koch-Institute in collaboration with the German Environment Agency
- Since 2009
Invited expert on social inequalities in environmental health, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn, Germany
- 2008 - 2018
Member of the board of the German Public Health Association (DGPH)
- Since 2002
Member of the extended board of the German Association for Social Medicine and Prevention (DGSMP),
Spokeswoman of the working group on gender-specific health research