Biography
Basic Education
2017 Professorship for Health Promotion, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
2004 PHD in Psychology, University of Berne, faculties of psychology and public health (Prof. Dr. Françoise Alsaker & Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Abel)
1989 Master in Psychology, Philosophy and Psychopathology of children and adults at the Unversity of Berne, Master Thesis at the University of Berne, faculty of psychology, Prof. Dr. Klaus Grawe and at the University of Zurich, department of Social Psychiatry, Prof. Dr. Ambros Uchtenhagen.
Additional education and courses
2016 Cerfiticate of Excellence in academic teaching
2013 EU - COST courses in scientific writing (Dublin and Malta)
2009 Problem based learning. University of Berne
2007 Management of higher education, University of Berne,
1999 Diploma in psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Heidelberg/Zurich
Professional positions
Since
2018 Member of the Global Working Group of Salutogenesis (IUHPE)
2015 Director of research at the Institute for Social Paedagogics and Education of Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences
2012 Visiting professor at the University of Health Tirol, Austria
2014 Chair of the Swiss delegation, member of Management Committee and Core Group, chair of the Early Career Think Tank of EU-COST-Action IS1405 "BIRTH"
2006 visiting professor at the School Of Applied Psychology of Northwestern University of Applied Sciences FHNW in Olten
2011 - 2014 Swiss Delegate, Memeber of Management Committee and Core Group, Chair of Early Career Reasearchers' Working Group of EU-COST Action IS907
2011 - 2015 Senior researcher and lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Arts and Sciences
2004 - 2011 Lecturer for Mental Health, Therapeutic Paedagogy, Social Psychology and Sexual Education at the University of teacher education, PHBerne
2001 --2004 Director of the Unit for Gender Health at the Swiss Ministry of Health in Berne
1998- 2008 Member of the International Board of the Journal of Primary Prevention (Kluwer, USA)
1996 – 2007 Lecturer at the Swiss School of Public Health
1993 - 2000 researcher and chair of the unit for Womens's Health at the Institue for Public Health and Health Promotion of the University of Berne, department of medicine
1991 - 1993 Co-Chair of the National Research Program on "Social Security for women afflicted by violence” NFP 29
1990 - 1993 Practiontioner in Health Promotion, Chair for Health Education of the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention (plus-Fachstelle) in Thun
1989 - 1990 Coordinator of the Research Association of Therapeutic Communities at the Institute for Social Psychiatry of the University of Zurich
1986 – 1989 research assistant at the Institute for Social Psychiatry of the University of Zurich
1982 - 1986 Teacher and research assistant in prorams for migrant youth with ECAP-CGIL Bern and the University of Florence
before 1982 Journalist and learning assistant journal editor at "Berner Zeitung“
Main Areas of Research
Salutogenesis
Early Childhood heealth ans education
Gender, diversity an equality in Health Promotion and Prevention
Mental Health, especially of young adults
Effectiveness and outcome evaluation
occupational health
Transdisciplinarity
health and economy
