Research Focuses

• Mental wellbeing and mental health
• Contextual factors of health
• Health-related environmental inequalities

Teaching / Promotion

Teaching in the BA Public Health and in the M.Sc. Epidemiology

Memberships

German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi)

Professional Career

Since 2020
Lecturer for contextual and spatial epidemiological methods, University of Bremen, Faculty 11

2013 - 2020
Research Associate, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen

2012 - 2013
Consultant for knowledge transfer, Plattform Ernährung und Bewegung e.V. (peb)

2009 - 2012
Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS

2009
Visiting Researcher, Social Health Authority, Tallinn, Estonia

Academic Career

2013 - 2007
Doctorate in Public Health, University of Bremen, Germany

2007 - 2009
Master Public Health, University of Bremen, Germany

2004 - 2007
Bachelor General Health Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

2007
Erasmus Semester Abroad, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

2006 - 2007
Honours program of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands