Curriculum vitae

Name, Titles: Barbara Prüller-Strasser, MSC, DDSC, MPH
Contact Data: UMIT – University for Health Sciences,
Medical Informatics and Technology
EWZ I, A-6060 Hall i. T., Austria
T: +43-50-8648-3916, F: +43-50-8648-673840
M: +43-664 2083316
E: barbara.strasser@umit.at
Date/Place of Birth: 31.03.1972, St. Poelten
Citizenship: Austrian
Web: www.barbara-strasser.at

EDUCATION
2011 Venia docendi in Clinical Exercise Physiology, UMIT, Hall i.T., Austria
2011 Education Program in Clinical Epidemiology, UMIT, Hall i.T., Austria
2008 Doctor in Health Sciences (magna cum laude), UMIT, Hall i. T. , Austria
2007 Master of Public Health (MPH), Medical University of Vienna, Austria
2005 Education Program in Cardiac Rehabilitation, AHA, Austria
2003 Doctor in Sport Sciences (magna cum laude), University of Vienna, Austria
1999 Master in Sport Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria

ACADEMIC CAREER
Since 2011 Chair, Institute for Nutritional Sciences and Physiology, UMIT, Austria
Since 2011 Course Director, Applied Nutritional Sciences, UMIT, Austria
Since 2009 Lecture in Epidemiology, Public Health Nutrition, Sports Medicine, UMIT, Austria
2009-2011 Senior Research Scientist, ISAG, Department for Medical Sciences, Umit, Austria
2000-2008 Research Scientist, Medical University Vienna, Institute for Sports Medicine, Austria

WORK EXPERIENCE
2000-2008 Center for Clinical Exercise Therapy, Vienna, Austria
1999 Research stay abroad: August Krogh University Copenhagen, Muscle Research Center, Denmark
1997 Research stay abroad: Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Institute for Sports Medicine, Germany

AWARDS AND HONORS
2006-2007 Public Health Grant (Fonds Gesundes Österreich)
2001-2002 Research Grant (University of Vienna)
1999 Research Grant (Danish National Research Foundation)
1999 Scholarship for scientific work abroad (Austrian Federal Ministry of Science & Research)
1998 Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship for practical abroad (EU)

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Methodological Areas: Public Health, Sport Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, Meta-Analysis
Medical Areas: Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Cancer, CVD, Vascular Prevention

MEMBERSHIP AND SCIENTIFIC BOARDS
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sportmedizin (DGSP)
European College of Sport Science (ECSS)

SOFTWARE: SPSS, STATA, Review Manager (Cochrane Collaboration)

LANGUAGES: German (native), English (fluent)