Dr. Susanne Breitner

Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Stat.

Tel.: +49 (0)89-3187-4481
Fax: +49 (0)89-3187-3380
susanne.breitner@helmholtz-muenchen.de

Education

• 1997 – 2003: Studies of Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany; Diplom Statistik (Master of Science Statistics, Specialization in stochastics and biometrics)
• 2003 - 2007: PhD in statistics with applications in epidemiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Department of Statistics;
  PhD thesis: “Time-varying coefficient models and measurement error”   
• 2004: Visiting doctoral student at Harvard School of Public Health, Environmental Epidemiology Program, Prof. Joel Schwartz, Boston, USA (3 months)
  
  

Experience

• 2000 - 2003: Student assistant at the Statistical Consulting Unit (STABLAB), Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• 2003 - 2006: Research associate at the Statistical Consulting Unit (STABLAB), Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• 2002 – 2005: Classes on SAS (statistical software package) and multivariate data analysis
• 2003 – 2007: Research associate at Helmholtz Zentrum München – Institute of Epidemiology
• Since 2007: Post Doctoral Fellow at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany
• Since 2009: Lectures on environmental epidemiology for MPH- and MScEpi-students at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany

Current research focus

My research interests include the effects of particulate air pollution and air temperature on daily cause-specific mortality and on morbidity outcomes. I am especially interested in the statistical methodology of air pollution and air temperature data analysis including time-varying coefficient models, measurement error and gene-environment interactions.

Research projects

HEI Erfurt II: "Improved air quality and its influences on short-term health effects in Erfurt, Eastern Germany"

• Data management
• Data analysis and publication

AIRGENE: "Air pollution and inflammatory response in myocardial infarction survivors: gene-environment interaction in a high risk group" (AIRGENE)

• Scientific advice
• Data analysis

DFG-Peking: "Short-term Health Effect of fine and ultra fine Particle Pollution in Beijing, China"

• Data management
• Data analysis and publication

EPA STAR 2: "Source-specific health effects of ultrafine and fine particles"
(www2.envmed.rochester.edu/envmed/pmc/indexpmc.html)

• Coordination of data management
• Data analysis and publication

MOHIT: "Mortality, myocardial infarction and air temperature in Bavaria"

• Data management
• Data analysis and publication

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