Spycher Ben, PD, PhD

Head of Research Group

Research - Environmental and Spatial Epidemiology

Phone
+41 31 684 33 46
E-Mail
ben.spycher@unibe.ch
Office
496
Postal Address
Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern
  • Analyses of cohort studies
  • Spatial statistics
  • Epidemiology of childhood cancer: Risk factors; spatial- and spatio-temporal clustering; the role of population mixing
  • Epidemiology of respiratory disorders in children: Phenotypes, risk factors and natural history.

Since 2012
Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland

2010-2011
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK

2006-2010
PhD in Biostatistics/Epidemiology, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland

2005-2006
Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland

2002 - 2005
BSc in Statistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

1999 - 2001
Associate Professional Officer, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Niamey, Niger, West Africa

1998 - 1999
Research Fellow, Institute of Agricultural Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH-Zürich), Zürich, Switzerland

1992 - 1997
MSc agricultural economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH-Zürich), Zürich, Switzerland