Dr. Susanne Breitner-Busch holds a Diploma in Statistics. In 2007, she received a Doctorate in Statistics from LMU Munich. She then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, in the research group "Epidemiology of Air Pollution Effects". From 2011 to 2021, she was deputy leader of the research group "Environmental Risks" at the Institute for Epidemiology at Helmholtz Zentrum München. 

Dr. Breitner-Busch’s main research interest is 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 the 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 Global Burden of Disease Study, and the European Burden of Disease Network. 

Dr. Breitner-Busch participates in a broad range of scientific activities: 

• Member of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)

• Global Burden of Disease Collaborator (focus on Environmental Burden of Disease and cardiovascular diseases) 

• Member of the European Burden of Disease Network 

• Member of the Expert Group “Environmental Impact and Geographical Factors” of the German National Cohort (NAKO)

• Member of the Multi-Country Multi-City (MCC) Collaborative Research Network

• Guest Editor for Lipids in Health and Disease - Collection on Environmental Exposures and Lipid Homeostasis: Investigating the Impact of Pollutants on Metabolic Health 

• Advisory Panel Member of Environmental Research Letters