Since 2024
Foundation Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Since 2019
President of the National Steering Board of the Swiss Personalised Health Network (SPHN)

Since 2015
Individual member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences

Since 2010
Medical Director of the University Children's Hospital Basel, Professor of Paediatrics

2016 – 2018
Vice President National Steering Board of the Swiss Personalised Health Network (SPHN)

2015 – 2018
Vice President Swiss-PedNet

1999
Ph.D. Bioengineering, Leicester University, Leicester, UK

1997
Specialisation - Child and Youth Medicine and Pulmonology, University of Bern, CH

1995
Specialisation - Pediatrics, University of Bern, CH

1990
MD, University of Bern, CH

2005 – 2010
Head of Department and Professor of Pediatric Pulmonolgy, University Hospital of Bern, CH

2001 – 2005
Consultant Pediatric Pulmonology, University Hospital of Bern, CH

1997 – 2001
SCORE Fellowship - Swiss National Society, University of Bern, CH

1994 – 1997
Fellowship - Swiss National Society, Leicester University, UK

1994
Fellowship - Swiss CF Society, Dept of Bopmedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, USA

1990 – 1993
Clinical Training - Pediatrics, University of Bern, CH

1989 – 1990
Fellowship - Swiss National Society, University of Bern, Switzerland

2021- 2025
Swiss National Science Foundation 320030_204717
Air Pollution and Effects on Lung Functional Development and Respiratory Morbidity in At-Risk.

2018 – 2021
Swiss National Science Foundation 320030B-182871
The prospective Basel-Bern infant lung development birth cohort (BILD): Impact of air pollution on profibrotic and autophagy related mechanisms involved in the development of the respiratory system in infants.

2015 – 2018
Swiss National Science Foundation 320030-163311
The prospective Basel-Bern infant lung development birth cohort (BILD): Integrating the impact of genetic and environmental factors on trajectories of respiratory disease from birth to school age.

2012 – 2015
Swiss National Science Foundation 324730-144280
The prospective Basel-Bern infant lung development birth cohort (BILD): early impact of genetic and environmental factors on lung growth and respiratory morbidity

2010 – 2015
Co-applicant: IMI - EU Innovative Medicine Initiative U-BIOPRED
Biomarkers of severe asthma

2009 – 2011
Swiss National Science Foundation 32003B-124654
Impact of early envrionmental and genetic determinants on lung development from infancy to preschool age

2008 – 2011
Co-applicant: Swiss National Science Foundation 3200B0-122341
Breastfeeding and the risk of childhood asthma: a population-based study

2008 – 2011
Co-applicant: FP7-EU (EFRAIM Multi-Centre Consortium grant) Responsible for developmental physiology and fieldwork

2015 – 2019
Member - Fleischner Society, Society for Thoracic Imaging and Diagnosis, USA

2014 – 2016
President, Division III: Biology and Medicine - Swiss National Foundationseit

2013
Pediatric Advisory Board - Lancet Respiratory Medicineseit

2008
Member - Swiss National Science Foundationseit

2006
Pediatric Editor - European Respiratory Journal

1999 – 2007
ERS Scientific group secretary/chair 7.01 (Pediatric Respiratory Physiology)

1998 – 2001
ERS - ATS Joint Officer (for the Infant lung physiology task force)

Reviewer
SNF, Nature, NEJM, Lancet, PNAS, American Journal Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Thorax, European Respiratory Journal, Pediatric Pulmonology, Journal of Applied Physiology, Respiration Physiology and Neurobiology, Pediatric Research and others

2020
Guido Fanconi Prize - Swiss Society of Paediatric

2007
ERS Romain Pauwels Award - Asthma Research in Europe

2005
Swiss Research Prize - Pediatric Pulmonology, for outstanding contribution to the field

2003
Theodor Kocher Research Prize, University of Bern

2003
Swiss Research Prize - Pediatrics (together with Prof. Wildhaber (Zurich) and Hammer (Baseo) for Research collaboration)

2001
ERS annual Award - Pediatric Respiratory Medicine in Europe

2001
Poster Research Prize - Pulmonolgy (as senior author)

1997
Swiss Research Prize - Pediatrics