Education and Academic Career
since 2004                                          Adjunct Professor, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Potsdam

since 1993                                          Head of the Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke

1992                                                   Habilitation in Epidemiology, Faculty of Theoretical Medicine, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg

1986 – 1993                                        Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg

1985 – 1987                                        Studies of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, (MSPH)

1985                                                   PhD, Justus Liebig University Gießen

1979 – 1985                                        PhD Studies, Institute of Documentation, Information and Statistics, German Cancer Research Center,

Heidelberg

1979                                                   Diploma in Nutrition (Justus Liebig University Gießen)

1974 – 1979                                        Studies of Nutrition, Christian Albrechts University Kiel and Justus Liebig Unversity Gießen

Academic Memberships

• Member of the Board of the German Nutrition Society
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Competence Network “Adiposity”
• Member of the Epidemiological Planning Committee of the German National Cohort
• Member of the EPIC Steering Committee of the EPIC Study
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the SMARTACT research project
• Specific research interest(s)    in nutritional epidemiology:
• Role of foods for disease prevention and food-based dietary guidelines
• Interaction of lifestyle factors with emphasis on diet, physical activity, anthropometry in relation to metabolite status and to nutritional, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders
• Dietary assessment methods

Publications (see pubmed under Boeing H)