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.

Environmental EpidemiologyAir PollutionMeteorologyClimate ChangeEnvironmental Burden of Disease