Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

ISPM Team

Field of work

  • Breastfeeding barriers and facilitators in Switzerland 
  • Matrescence, matricentric feminism, and maternal and child health
  • Physiological birth 
  • Pregnancy and early life exposome, including the study of complex mixtures spanning environmental, lifestyle, and behaviors, molecular intermediates, and non-communicable disease
  • Causal Inference 

Curriculum Vitae

2023-current
Research Assistant, ISPM and MCID

2020-2023
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ISPM

2020-2023
Honorary Senoir Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK

2017-2020
Medical Research Council Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College London, London, UK

2012-2017
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

2011-2017
Doctor of Philosophy Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

2011-2012
National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences T32 Trainee, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

2010-2011
Research Associate, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Nicolas School for the Environment, Duke University, Durham, USA

2009-2010
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, USA

2009
Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies. Appalachian State University, Boone, USA

2006-2009
Master of Science, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, USA

2003- 2006
Bachelor of Science, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, USA