Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience
- 2009: Specialist Psychologist for Health Psychology FSP (Federation of Swiss Psychologists)
- 2006: PhD on “The recording of reading activities in children with the help of structured diaries” with Prof Dr François Stoll, Faculty of Philosophy I, University of Zurich, Psychological Institute
- 1989: Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Main focus
Teaching
- Research methods and statistics
- Mental impairment
- Substance-independent addictions
- Addiction epidemiology
- Developmental psychology
- Health and integration
Continuing education
- Resilience
- Quantitative methods and statistics
Research
- Health and integration/migration
- Health in the family context
- Dependency/addiction
- School and extracurricular support
Services
- CAS Research in the Social Sciences, University of Zurich in cooperation with the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, quantitative methods
Further information
Memberships, review & commission activities
- Member of the Commission, Employee Participation Organisation of the School of Social Work (MOM-HSA)
- Board member of the Swiss Society for Health Psychology (SGGPsy)
- National Delegate for Switzerland in the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)
- Member of the Federation of Swiss Psychologists (FSP)
- Member of the D/A/CH Network for Health Promotion
- Member of the association chronischkrank.ch, Switzerland
- Member and co-founder of NCBI Switzerland (National Coalition Building Institute, Switzerland)
Review activities
- 2016: Review Panel of 7th European Conference for Social Work Research, Aalborg University.19 – 21 April 2017
- 2015: Review Panel of 6th European Conference for Social Work Research, Lisbon, Portugal. 30 March - 1 April 2016
- 2015: Review Panel of 29th Conference of the EHPS: Principles of Behaviour Change in Health and Illness, Limassol, Cyprus. 1 - 5 September 2015