Dr. Susanne Breitner-Busch (neé Breitner)
Senior Scientist, Research Group “Environmental Risks”“Applying multidisciplinary approaches – including climate and air pollution sciences and environmental epidemiology – to investigate the intersection of climate change, air pollution, and human health and protect susceptible populations.”
“Applying multidisciplinary approaches – including climate and air pollution sciences and environmental epidemiology – to investigate the intersection of climate change, air pollution, and human health and protect susceptible populations.”
Academic career and research areas
Dr. Susanne Breitner-Busch holds a Diploma in Statistics. In 2007, she received her doctorate in Statistics from the LMU Munich. She then worked as a postdoc at the Institute for Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, in the research group "Epidemiology of Air Pollution Effects". From 2011 until 2021, she had been deputy leader of the research group "Environmental Risks" at the Institute for Epidemiology at Helmholtz Zentrum München.
Dr. Breitner-Busch’s research interests are on the intersection of weather/climate change, air pollution, and human health. Her work involves applying multidisciplinary approaches in climate and air pollution sciences, exposure assessment, and environmental epidemiology to investigate the impact of particulate and gaseous air pollution, weather and climate change on human health. Dr. Breitner-Busch is especially interested in the statistical methodology of air pollution and air temperature analyses including environmental burden of disease, synergistic effects of air pollution and weather, and multi-pollutant approaches. Important partners for her research are the Multi-County Multi-City Database Network, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the European Burden of Disease Network.
Fields of Work and Expertise
Environmental EpidemiologyAir PollutionMeteorologyClimate ChangeEnvironmental Burden of Disease
Professional Background
Senior Scientist at the IBE-Chair of Epidemiology, LMU Munich
Visiting scientist for 2 months at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Deputy Working Group Leader “Environmental Risks” at the Institute of Epidemiology at Helmholtz Munich
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in Statistics, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
Highlight Publications
See all2022 Environ Pollut Environ Pollut 302:119071, DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119071
2021 Dtsch Arztebl Int Dtsch Arztebl Int 118(29-30):491-496, DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2021.0258
2021 Environ Int Environ Int 147:106364, DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.106364
2020 Environ Health Perspect Environ Health Perspect 128(1):17003, DOI: 10.1289/EHP5478
2020 Sci Total Environ Sci Total Environ 707:136053, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136053
2019 Sci Rep Sci Rep 9(1):1946, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38531-9
2016 Environ Int Environ Int 97:76-84, DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2016.10.012
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