Heiner Boeing

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)