Since 2025
Head Physician Paediatric Pneumology (40%), University Children's Hospital Basel

Since 2023
Senior Consultant Paediatric Pneumology (40%), University Children's Hospital Basel

Since 2021
Senior Consultant Paediatric Pneumology (60%), University Children's Hospital Zurich
Senior Consultant Paediatric Medicine (40%), University Children's Hospital Basel

2019-2021
Postdoctoral researcher, University Children's Hospital Basel (40%)

2019-2021
Fellow Paediatric Pneumology, University Children's Hospital Zurich (60%)

2018-2019
Assistant doctor, University Children's Hospital Basel

2017-2018
Postdoctoral researcher, University Children's Hospital Basel

2014-2017
PhD student, University Children's Hospital Basel

2011-2014
Resident, Paediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité, Berlin

2022
Rigid and flexible paediatric bronchoscopy, European Respiratory Society

2021
Specialist title in paediatric pneumology (Swiss Medical Association FMH) and European examination in paediatric pneumology

2020
Venia docendi (private lecturer), University of Zurich

2019
Pediatric Advanced Life Support Course (PALS), University Children's Hospital Zurich

2019
Didactics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
2019
Specialist title in paediatrics (Swiss Medical Association, FMH)

2018
Good Clinical Practice (GCP), University Children's Hospital Basel

2017
PhD in Epidemiology "Immunological and genetic determinants of pulmonary outcome in school children", University of Basel (supervisor: Prof. Urs Frey), summa cum laude

2016
MD Thesis "All-trans retinoic acid recruits Smad3 to control TGF-β signalling in lung fibroblasts: Implications for the management of bronchopulmonary dysplasia with retinoids", Justus Liebig University, Germany (Supervisor: Prof Werner Seeger), summa cum magna

2010
United States Medical Licence Examination (USMLE): Step 1 85/100; Step 2 95/100

2010
Paediatrics, L'Ospedale dei Bambini Meyer, Florence

2010
Internal Medicine/Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Centre, New York, USA

2009
Surgery, Hirslanden Clinic, Zurich

2007
General clinical training, University of Padua, Italy

2004 – 2010
Medical studies, Justus Liebig University, Giessen

• Scientific Advisory Board: European Respiratory Society (ERS) Clinical Research Collaboration Working Group
• Chairman "Lung function" at the German Society for Paediatric Pneumology
• Member: Swiss Society for Paediatric Pneumology, European Respiratory Society, German Society for Paediatric Pneumology, European Society for Pediatric Research
• Chairman: Section Lung Function, German Society for Paediatric Pneumology
• Delegate: Pneumology, Swiss Society of Paediatrics

Supervised dissertations:

• Amanda Gisler; PhD University of Basel, accepted 2022: "Main and interaction effects of gaseous and particulate pollutants on respiratory health in children"
• Andrea Suter; MD University of Basel, accepted 2019: "Variability of respiratory parameters in preterm infants and correlations with respiratory diseases in infancy: A cohort study"
• Desirée Demann; MD University of Bern, accepted 2018: "Interrupter technique in infancy: Higher airway resistance and lower short-term variability in preterm infants compared to term infants"

Teaching activity:

• Clinical skills training for medical students, University Children's Hospital Zurich
  Teaching at the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes": "Krankheit, Evidenz, Nichtwissen. Current issues in the philosophy of medicine."
• Lessons for medical students during "Science Month (WIMO)" at the University of Basel

• The Lancet Planetary Health
• American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
• European Respiratory Journal
• Journal of Applied Physiology
• British Medical Journal
• Pediatrics, Clinical and Translational Immunology
• Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
• Environmental Research
• Respiratory Medicine
• Pediatric Pulmonology
• Clinical and Translational Immunology and many more

Editorial Board: PloS One, IF 3.7

I am a clinical researcher (postdoc and senior physician) at the University Children's Hospitals in Zurich and Basel. I supervise two PhD students and co-supervise two other PhD students in the Pneumology research group and am part of the Basel-Bern cohort on lung development in infants. My research focusses on risk factors associated with lung development in infancy. To investigate the small contribution of different risk factors to the development of lung function, I have studied different lung function tests and developed new clinically useful scores for the assessment of respiratory diseases in children. My aim is to better understand pathophysiological changes after cancer therapy using sensitive outcome measures.

PI or Co-PI for reviewed grants totalling CHF 1,510,000 in the last 6 years.

1. Swiss cancer research: New lung function tests and lung imaging to identify the causes of lung dysfunction in children with cancer. (366,000 CHF; 7/2022; Principal investigator)
2. Vertex Unrestricted Grant: In-depth analysis of the treatment effects of Trikafta (elaxacaftor, tezacaftor and ivacaftor) on disease-specific respiratory characteristics using SESI-HRMS as well as sputum inflammation and microbiome in children and adolescents aged 12 years and older with cystic fibrosis. (CHF 220,000; co-researcher, 09/2021)
3. Swiss cancer research: Pulmonary dysfunction after childhood cancer: evaluation of the early stages of the disease (phase 2). (CHF 370,000; 7/2021; co-investigator)
4. Palatin Foundation: Combination of lung function, lung imaging and respiratory analysis to investigate lung dysfunction in children with cancer. (CHF 200,000; 09/2020; Principal investigator)
5. Swiss Lung Association: Effects of air pollution on lung function and lung growth in Swiss children. (CHF 60,000; 07/2020; Principal investigator)
6. Lung League Berne: Luftibus at school - smoking behaviour and respiratory health in Swiss children. (CHF 63,000; 06/2020; co-researcher)
7. University Children's Hospital Zurich, Research Centre for the Child: Interdisciplinary assessment of patients with a single ventricle: How do the heart, lungs and patients adapt to a non-physiological circulation? (66,000 CHF; 01/2020; Co-investigator)
8. Research Fund of the University of Basel: Exhaled breath analysis in paediatric patients exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (EBATS). (80,000 CHF; 08/2018; Principal investigator)
9. University Children's Hospital Basel "Special Programme" Grant: Non-invasive urinary eicosanoid profiling for the investigation of acute respiratory infections in infants. (CHF 65,000; 12/2017; Principal investigator)
10. German, Swiss and Austrian Society for Paediatric Pneumology: "Cluster analysis of risk factors for respiratory symptoms in the first year of life and associations with the development of asthma at school age." (CHF 20,000; 04/2016; Principal investigator)

• Pfizer Research Award for Clinical Research to my doctoral student Amanda Gisler (2022)
• Swiss Aerosol Award (Swiss Aerosol Society, SAG) (2021)
• Poster Prize of the German Society for Paediatric Pneumology (2020)
• Talent Award of the Swiss Society of Paediatrics (2019)
• Poster Prize of the Swiss Society of Paediatrics (2018)
• Research Prize of the University Children's Hospital Basel (2017)