2010-2026
Medical Director of the University Children’s Hospital of the Two Basels (UKBB) and Professor of Paediatrics

2005–2010
Head of the Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Professor at Bern University Hospital

2001–2005
Senior Registrar in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Bern University Hospital

1990–1993
Clinical training in paediatrics at the University of Bern

1999
PhD in Bioengineering, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

1997
Specialist training in paediatrics and adolescent medicine, and paediatric respiratory medicine, University of Bern

1995
Specialist training in paediatrics, University of Bern

1990
Degree in Medicine (Dr med.), University of Bern

1997–2001
SCORE Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Bern

1994–1997
Research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Leicester University, United Kingdom

1994
Research grant from the Swiss Cystic Fibrosis Society, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, USA

1989–1990
Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellowship, University of Bern

Since 2026
Chair of the Research Advisory Board for the Life Sciences Research Collaboration Funding Programme of the Canton of Basel-Stadt

Since 2024
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

2019-2024
Chair of the National Steering Board of the Swiss Personalised Health Network (SPHN)

Since 2015
Individual member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMW)

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

2015–2018
Vice-President of SwissPedNet

2015–2019
Member of the Fleischner Society (Society for Thoracic Imaging and Diagnostics, USA)

2014–2016
President of Division III «Biology and Medicine» of the Swiss National Science Foundation

Since 2013
Member of the Paediatric Advisory Board of *Lancet Respiratory Medicine*

Since 2008
Member of the Swiss National Science Foundation

Since 2006
Paediatric Editor of the European Respiratory Journal

1999–2007
Secretary and Chair of Scientific Working Group 7.01 (Paediatric Respiratory Physiology) of the European Respiratory Society

1998–2001
Joint representative of the European Respiratory Society and the American Thoracic Society for the «Infant Lung Physiology» Task Force»

Reviewer for numerous national and international specialist journals and funding organisations, including the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), *Nature*, the *New England Journal of Medicine*, *The Lancet*, *PNAS*, the *European Respiratory Journal* and *Pediatric Research*

Prizes and awards

• 2020: Guido Fanconi Prize from the Swiss Society of Paediatrics
• 2007: The European Respiratory Society’s Romain Pauwels Award for asthma research in Europe
• 2005: Swiss Research Prize in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine for outstanding contributions to the field
• 2003: Theodor Kocher Research Prize from the University of Bern
• 2003: Swiss Paediatrics Research Prize (jointly with Prof. Wildhaber and Prof. Hammer)
• 2001: European Respiratory Society Annual Award for Paediatric Respiratory Medicine in Europe
• 2001: Poster Award in Pulmonology as senior author
• 1997: Swiss Paediatrics Research Prize

Scholarships

• 1997–2001: SCORE Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation
• 1994–1997: Research fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, Leicester University
• 1994: Research fellowship from the Swiss Cystic Fibrosis Society, Boston University
• 1989–1990: Research fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Bern

2021–2025
SNSF project «Air Pollution and Its Effects on Lung Functional Development and Respiratory Morbidity in At-Risk Children»

2018–2021
SNSF project on the impact of air pollution on lung development as part of the BILD cohort

2015–2018
SNSF project on the integration of genetic and environmental factors in childhood respiratory diseases (BILD cohort)

2012–2015
SNSF project on genetic and environmental influences on lung growth and respiratory diseases in early childhood (BILD cohort)

2010–2015
Co-applicant on the EU project U-BIOPRED on biomarkers in severe asthma

2009–2011
SNSF project on genetic and environmental factors influencing lung development from infancy through to pre-school age

2008–2011
Co-applicant on an SNSF project investigating the link between breastfeeding and childhood asthma

2008–2011
Co-applicant for the European EFRAIM consortium (FP7), responsible for developmental physiology and fieldwork