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Structured PhD Program «Epidemiology and Biostatistics»

Alumni

Our awardees for an outstanding dissertation!

Dr. Henock Yebyo, 2019
Dr. Henock Yebyo, 2019

 

Dr. Sebastian Meyer
Dr. Sebastian Meyer, 2016

 

 

Name Dissertation Year Supervisor
Federico Blasi Toward Modular and Flexible Modeling of Spatial Processes 2024 R. Furrer
Kang Leng Ho Job and Off-Job Crafting: Navigating the Interconnected Work and Non-Work Domains for Occupational and Mental Well-Being 2024 G. Bauer
Paola Daniore Enabling Participation to Realize the Potential of Remote Digital Health Studies 2024 V. von Wyl

Sukuman Rittem

Understanding and Developing Strategies for Managing Human-Macaque Interaction in Thailand Using a Participatory and One Health Approach 2024 S. Rüegg and P. Torgerson
Sarah Pannen Development and Validation of a Semiquantitative Web-Based Food Frequency Questionnaire Optimized for Dietary Assessment of Adults in Switzerland 2024 S. Rohrmann
Marius Zeeb Using Complex Data in Observational Cohorts to Identify the Mechanisms and Drivers of Comorbidities in People with HIV 2024 R. Kouyos
Anja Morstatt Short-to Long-Term Dynamics and Interconnectivity of Job and Off- Job Crafting and Their Relevance for Employee Well-Being 2024 G. Bauer
Nadja Hedrich The Epidemiology of Mosquito-Borne Infections in Travellers 2024 T. Hothorn and P. Schlagenhauf
Manja Deforth Methodological Challenges in Clinical Prognostic Prediction Models 2024 U. Held
Mina Stanikic Living and Aging with Multiple Sclerosis - Insights from the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Registry 2024 V. von Wyl
Violeta Muñoz-Gómez The Burden of Disease and Other Causes of Morbidity and Mortality in Backyard Chickens in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries 2024 P. Torgerson
Thibault Lovey The Epidemiology of Respiratory Infections in Mobile Populations 2024 T. Hothorn and P. Schlagenhauf
Rahim Lalji Developing Research Capacity in Swiss Chiropractic Primary Care Through Practice-Based Research Networks 2023 C. Hincapie
Anthony Sonrel Cell Population Identification and Benchmarking of Tools in Single-Cell Data Analysis 2023 M. Robinson
Charlotte Micheloud Advances in Statistical Methods for the Design and Analysis of Replication Studies 2023 L. Held
Sandra Siegfried Statistical Models and Software for Applications in Transformation Inference 2023 T. Hothorn
Maria-Eleni Syleouni Identifying Breast Cancer Risk Factors Using Proteomics and Machine Learning 2023 S. Rohrmann
Maria Luisa Marques de Sa Faquetti Advancing Drug Utilization and Drug Safety Research Through Interdisciplinary Methods 2023 A. Burden
Martin Tušl Examining the Role of Needs-Based Crafting in Promoting Employee Positive Health Development During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis: A Salutogenic Approach 2023 G. Bauer
Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar Time-varying Transmission Weights in Endemic-epidemic Models 2023 L. Held
Helena Aebersold Real-World Evidence on Atrial Fibrillation - Health Economic Analyses of the Swiss-AF Cohort Study 2023 M. Schwenkglenks
Almut Lütge Benchmarking and Development of Computational Methods for Single Cell Data Analysis – Challenges and Opportunities 2023 M. Robinson
Julian Bär Insights from Images on Bacterial Growth, Antibiotic Persistence and Quorum Sensing 2023 A. Zinkernagel
Judith Bergada Pijuan Beyond Antibiotics - Harnessing Commensal Bacteria for Preventing Pathogenic Infections 2023 A. Zinkernagel
Chloé Sieber Mobile Health Tool Implementation for Multiple Sclerosis Research in Real World Settings: Opportunities and Challenges 2023 V. von Wyl
Helena Crowell Computational Methods Development and Benchmarking for Single-Cell and Spatially Resolved Omics Data 2023 M. Robinson
Samuel Pawel Reverse-Bayes Methods for Replication Studies 2023 L. Held
Lucas Kook Deep Learning and Causal Inference with Transformation Models 2023 T. Hothorn and B. Sick
Tala Ballouz Understanding the Burden of Post COVID-19 Condition - A Population-Based Perspective Across Three Pandemic Waves 2023 J. Fehr and M. Puhan
Malwina Kowalska Corneal Cross-Linking (CXL) as Treatment for Infectious Keratitis 2022 S. Pot and P. Torgerson
Alessandra Spanu A New Method for Benefit-Harm Assessment Using Individual Data from Randomised Controlled Trials of Drugs for Patients Affected by Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis 2022 M. Puhan
Frédérique Lachmann Innovative Study Designs to Collect Sensitive Data, Assess Behaviour and Guide Clinical Practice in the Era of HIV PrEP 2022 J. Fehr
Liz Paola Noguera Zayas Zoonoses in Paraguay and Animal Valuation: One Health Approach 2022 P. Torgerson
Bálint Tamási Transformation Models for Correlated Data 2022 T. Hothorn
Luisa Barbanti Theory and Applications of Multivariate Conditional Transformation Models 2022 T. Hothorn
Suraj Balakrishna Sexually Transmitted Infections and Comorbidities in People Living with HIV in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy 2022 R. Kouyos
Ashley Polhemus Digital Mobility Outcome Validation: Advancing Harmonized Theory and Methodology 2022

M. Puhan

A. Frei

Vladimir Souza Detection of Genetic Variants from Long-Read RNA-Seq Data 2022 M. Robinson
Dominik Menges Generating Evidence to Support Health Care Policy Making for Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatment and Pandemic Response in Switzerland 2022 M. Puhan
Roman Flury

Identifying Features in Spatial Data on Different Scales of Variation with Ecological Applications

2022 R. Furrer
Lisa Herzog 2022 T. Hothorn & B. Sick
Kelly Reeve Predicting Individual Outcomes in People with Multiple Sclerosis 2022 T. Hothorn & U. Held
Sona Hunanyan

Quantification of Sensitivity and Empirical Determinacy in Bayesian Hierarchical Models

2022 L. Held & M. Roos
Mathilde Boumasmoud Epidemiological and Evolutionary Insights from the Characterization of Bacterial Populations in Clinical Settings 2021 A. Zinkernagel
Alexandra Strassmann In Search of Respiratory Risk Factors and Effective Preventive Measures 2021 M. Puhan
Jakob Dambon Gaussian Process-based Spatially Varying Coefficient Models 2021 R. Furrer
Viacheslav Kachalov Quantifying the Drivers of Antibiotic Resistance and Nosocomial Infections 2021 R. Kouyos
Anna Luisa Grimm The Aware Leader—Benefits for Leaders and Employees:
Empirical Evidence and Digital Intervention to Improve Psychosocial Well-being at Work 

 
2021 G. Bauer
Erin Ashley West Methodological Considerations for Estimating Prevalence in Epidemiology: A Look at a Very Rapid and Very Slow Lung Disease in Switzerland 2021 M. Puhan
Stephany Orjuela Computational Methods for High-Throughput DNA Methylation and Gene Expression Data Analysis with Applications to Colorectal Tumors 2021 M. Robinson
Giulia Paternoster Epidemiology and Spatial Modelling of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis in Kyrgyzstan 2021

R. Furrer

P. Torgerson

Philipp Kerksieck

Crafting Work, Nonwork and the Boundary Between Them:

Individual Strategies for Employee Health and Well-Being

2021 G. Bauer
Vasileios Nittas Preventing Disease in the Digital Era: Exploring Electronic Self-Monitoring through a Person-Centered Lens 2021 M. Puhan & M. Mütsch

Agnė Ulytė

Clinical practice guidelines and geographic variation in utilization of health care services in Switzerland 2020 H. Dressel
Nena Karavasiloglou 2020 S. Rohrmann
Giulia Pestoni Is Your Plate Good for Your Health? Determinants of Dietary Patterns and Their Association with Health Outcomes 2020 S. Rohrmann
Sylvia Lisman-Brötje Promoting Salutogenic Working Conditions in Nursing - An Investigation of Job Resources, Sense of Coherence and Acceptance of Digitally-Supported Interventions 2020 G. Bauer
Ruizhu (Fiona) Huang Method Development for Analysis of Biological Data with Hierachical Structure 2020 M. Robinson
Ruedi Jung Bone Health and Exercise Adherence in Childhood Cancer Survivors 2020

M. Puhan

S. Kriemler

Muriel Buri Statistical Models Tailored to Ordinal Outcomes in Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials 2020 T. Hothorn
Wenjia Wei Regional Variation and Influencing Factors in the Utilization of Diverse Healthcare Services: a Comprehensive Analysis Approach 2020

V. von Wyl

M. Schwenkglenks

Marco Kaufmann Investigating the Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis in Switzerland: A Population Matter 2020 V. von Wyl
Hélène Aschmann Informing Patient-Centered Care through Quantitative Benefit-Harm Assessments 2020 M. Puhan
Gilles Kratzer Advances in Additive Bayesian Network Modelling Applied to Observational Systems Epidemiology Datasets 2020 R. Furrer
Johannes Bracher Statistical Modelling and Forecasting of Infectious Disease Surveillance Counts 2020 L. Held
Anja Lehmann Improving Psychological Health at Work: When and Why is an Organizational Health Intervention Effective? 2019 G. Bauer
Teja Turk Modeling Complex Data to Assess the Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Viral Infections 2019 R. Kouyos
Craig Wang Process-Based Spatial Fusion Models: Jointly Analyzing Geostatistical, Lattice and Point Pattern Data 2019 R. Furrer
David Imo Human Biomonitoring for the Assessment of Mercury Exposure due to Mercury Contaminated Soils 2019 H. Dressel
Laura Werlen Young People with Common Mental Disorders in Switzerland: the State of Affairs – and What to Do about it 2019

M. Puhan

M. Mohler-Kuo

Lukas Weber Statistical and Computational Method Development and Benchmarking for Analysis of High-Dimensional Single-Cell Cytometry Data 2019 M. Robinson
Simeon Zürcher Bone Health in Childhood Cancer Survivors, Athlethes, and Pubertal Children 2019

M. Puhan

S. Kriemler

Nadine Bachmann Quantifying the Obstacles Towards HIV Elimination: From the Individual to the Population Perspective 2019

H. Günthardt

R. Kouyos

Erica Ponzi Measurement Error Modelling in Biological Applications 2019

S. Muff

L. Held

Rachel Heyard Bayesian Variable Selection for Clinical Prediction Models 2019 L. Held
Laura Barin From Diagnosis to Disease Management: Combining the Clinical and the Patient-Centered Perspective in Multiple Sclerosis Research 2019

M. Puhan

V. von Wyl

Henock Yebyo Benefit-Harm Balance Modeling to Redefine Cardiovascular Disease Risk Thresholds for Initiating Statin Use for Primary Prevention: National and Global Perspectives 2018 M. Puhan
Salome Adam Cancer Survivorship Aspects of Prostate, Colorectal and Endometrial Cancer Survivors in Germany and the Netherlands 2018

S. Rohrmann

V. Arndt

Einat Schmutz Physical activity behavior in preschool children. 2018

M. Puhan

S. Kriemler

Mark Adams Discovering areas for quality improvement in neonatal network data. 2018 M. Puhan
Sarah Ziegler Sedation in end-of-life care: a growing need for the Swiss health care system. 2018 M. Puhan
Sarah Crook Important Outcomes in the Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 2018

M. Puhan

A. Frei

Claudia Leeger Physical activity and fundamental movement skills in three- to five-year-old children. 2018

M. Puhan

S. Kriemler

Manuela Ott Objective Bayesian Calibration of P-Values 2018 L. Held
Katarina Matthes The impact of comorbidities and tumor characteristics on treatment decisions and survival of prostate cancer patients. 2018

S. Rohrmann

Dehler

Heidi Seibold Model-based recursive partitioning for stratified and personalised medicine 2018 T. Hothorn
Isaac Gravestock Evaluating the Operating Characteristics of Bayesian Methods for Clinical Biostatistics 2018 L. Held
Alex Marzel Computational and molecular analyses of HIV epidemiology in Switzerland: from quantifying transmission and coinfections to behavioral determinants of health. 2018

H. Günthardt

R. Kouyos

Nadine Häusler Implications of population aging and resulting multiple social responsibilities on health outcomes of the workforce. 2018

M. Puhan

O. Hämmig

M. Bopp

Beniamino Guerra Prediction Models: Novel Ways for External Validation and Comparison of Their Performance. An Application to Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) 2017 M. Puhan
Andrea Farnham Innovation in Travel Medicine using Mobile Technology: the TOURIST study 2017

M. Puhan

C. Hatz

Laura Girardat-Rotar Evidence-based management in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease 2017 M.Puhan
Tina Lohse The role of lifestyle factors and personality for the prevention of cancer and other noncommunicable diseases 2017 S. Rohrmann
Malgorzata Nowicka Statistical method development and design of computational pipelines for differential analyses of high-throughput data, including DNA microarrays, RNA sequencing and HDCyto data 2017 M. Robinson
Mohaned Shilaih Systems study of HIV transmission, treatment, coinfections, and pathogenesis 2017 R. Kouyos
Lorenzo Tanadini Prognostic factors in spinal cord injury clinical trials 2017 T. Hothorn
Xiaobei Zhou Improving statistical methods for RNA sequencing data : outliers, boundary conditions, benchmarking and differential transcript expression 2016 M. Robinson
Aline Richard Associations of lifestyle with physical and mental health in Switzerland 2016 S. Rohrmann
Marta Pittavino Additive Bayesian networks for multivariate data : parameter learning, model fitting and applications in veterinary epidemiology 2016 R. Furrer
Fabien Mavrot Livestock nematode infection in a changing world : investigating the European situation 2016 P. Torgerson
Sebastian Meyer Statistical methods for the spatio-temporal modelling of infectious disease spread 2016 L. Held
Wei Wei Calibration tests to evaluate probabilistic forecasts and temporal modelling to monitor infectious diseases 2015 L. Held
Rafael Sauter Generalised Linear Mixed Models: Likelihood and Bayesian Computations with Applications in Epidemiology 2015 L. Held