CURRENT POSITIONS
| Since 2019 | Postdoc & lecturer, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University Basel |
| Since 2023 | Sport and exercise physician, SportAdo Centre, University Hospital Lausanne |
| Since 2021 | Board member, Le Réseau Santé et Sport |
| Since 2019 | Associate Editor, British Medical Journal Open Sport & Exercise Medicine |
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Exercise metabolomics and lipidomics
- Healthy and active ageing
- Overtraining and training monitoring
- Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED–S)
- Sport and Exercise Medicine in medical education
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
| 2023 | General internal medicine specialist, Swiss Medical Association |
| 2023 | Sport and exercise medicine specialist, Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland |
| 2020 | Doctor of Medicine (doctoral research degree), University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dissertation title: ‘Modelling training adaptation in swimming using artificial neural network geometric optimisation’. |
| 2015 | Swiss federal physician diploma |
EDUCATION
General medical education
| 2016 – 2023 | Swiss postgraduate training in general internal medicine |
| 2015 | Swiss federal physician diploma |
| 2012 – 2015 | Master of Medicine, University of Lausanne |
| 2009 – 2012 | Bachelor of Medicine, University of Lausanne |
Sport and exercise medicine specialisation
| 2022 – | International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) diploma in sports medicine |
| 2021 – | Swiss postgraduate training in musculoskeletal ultrasound |
| 2019 – 2023 | Swiss postgraduate training in sport and exercise medicine |
| 2022 | Sports Trauma Management Course, Lubas Medical, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2021 | IOC Advanced Team Physician Course, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2021 | IOC Course on Cardiovascular Evaluation of Olympic Athletes, Istanbul, Turkey |
Scientific education
| 2022 | Course ‘Causal Diagrams: Draw Your Assumptions Before Your Conclusions’, Harvard University, USA |
| 2020 | Course ‘Metabolomics: understanding metabolism in the 21st century’, University of Birmingham, UK |
| 2020 | Confident in writing R data science code |
| 2015 – 2020 | Doctoral dissertation, University of Lausanne |
| 2012 – 2015 | Master thesis, University of Lausanne. Thesis title: ‘Monitoring of the training load and recovery parameters in competitive swimmers’. |
PAST POSITIONS
Past scientific positions
| 2019 – 2020 | Research fellow & lecturer (50%), Department of Sport, Exercise & Health, University Basel |
| 2020 | International Olympic Committee’s research team, ‘The injury and illness surveillance study’, Prof Dr L Engebretsen, 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games, Lausanne |
| 2018 | Visiting academic, Prof Dr J Hawley, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2016 – 2021 | Blog series coordinator for the British Journal of Sports Medicine (Swiss junior doctors and undergraduate perspectives) |
| 2015 – 2020 | Doctoral student, University of Lausanne |
Past clinical positions
| 2022 – 2023 | Resident physician (50%), Sport and general medicine, Medbase Bern Zentrum, Switzerland |
| 2021 – 2021 | Resident physician (50%), Sport orthopaedics, Altius Swiss Sportmed Centre, Rheinfelden, Switzerland |
| 2019 – 2020 | Resident physician (50%), Exercise medicine outpatient clinic, Department of Sport, Exercise & Health, University Basel |
| 2016 – 2018 | Resident physician (100%), Department of internal medicine, Hospital Centre of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland |
| 2015 – 2019 | Military physician (1st lieutenant), 204 days (6,8 months), Swiss Army |
Past board positions
| 2017 – 2021 | Board member, Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland |
| 2017 – 2021 | President–Founder, Junior Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland |
| 2017 – 2021 | Organiser of the Swiss Students Day of Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland |
GRANTS & AWARDS
| 2023 | 15,000 CHF, Swiss Life Jubilee Foundation, The SphingoFIT study |
| 2023 | 80,000 CHF, Research Fund for Excellent Junior Researchers of the University of Basel, The SphingoFIT study |
| 2023 | 5,000£, Research Bursary of the British Association of Sport & Exercise Medicine, The SphingoHIIT study |
| 2022 | 14,400 Swiss francs, Free Academic Society of Basel, The SphingoHIIT study |
| 2022 | 2nd place (2,000 euros), Research Award of the Forschungsinstitut für Training in der Prävention, ‘The Metabolic Signature of Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Systematic Review’ |
| 2020 | 10,000 Swiss francs, ‘Unravelling the metabolic profile of healthy ageing and active living in human serum – a metabolomics data–driven clinical cohort study’, Scientific Prize of Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland |
| 2010 | 1st place (best medical student 1,000 Swiss francs), Ernest–Leuba Prize, Faculty of Sciences, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
TEAM PHYSICIAN EXPERIENCES
| 2022 | Boat physician, 150km swim across the Lake of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2022 | Swiss indoor athletics championships, Magglingen, Switzerland |
| 2021 | Swiss national team, W17 European handball championships, Podgorica, Montenegro |
| 2021 | American football, U19 and adult male teams, Gladiators Basel, Switzerland |