Eva Schernhammer#
| Membership Number: | 6913 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://public-health.meduniwien.ac.at/en/unsere-abteilungen/abteilung-fuer-epidemiologie/mitarbeiterinnen/eva-schernhammer/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4337-9415 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-schernhammer-a34b859/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna
- 2015 Full Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna
- 2015 Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston
- 2015 Lecturer on Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
- 2012 - 2015 Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- 2011 - 2015 Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- 2010 - 2015 Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- 2009 Affiliated Faculty, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- 2009 - 2011 Visiting Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- 2006 - 2011 Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- 2005 - 2010 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- 2003 - 2005 Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- 2003 MPhil, Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2003 DrPH (Epidemiology), Harvard School of Public Health
- 2000 - 2003 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
- 2000 MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
- 1997 - 2000 Clinical Fellow, Hematology/Medical Oncology, Kaiser-Franz-Josef Hospital, Vienna, AT
- 1994 - 1997 Resident, Internal Medicine, Kaiser-Franz-Josef Hospital, Vienna, AT
- 1992 - 1994 Clinical and Research Fellow, Hematology/Medical Oncology, Danube Hospital, Vienna
- 1992 MD, University of Vienna Medical School, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Hormones
- Epidemiology
- Circadian rhythms
- Public health
- Sleep
- Lifestyle
- Cancer epidemiology
- ONE health
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Harvey Fineberg Fellowship in Cancer Prevention Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention Research
- 2005 Elected President Austrian Scientists in North America (ASciNA) Society of more than 1000 Top Scientists in North America
- 2007 Professional Lighting Design Recognition Award Architectural Lighting Design in Application Outstanding contribution to Research and Significant New Findings Related to Architectural Lighting
- 2009 Alois Sonnleitner- Award Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Prevention
- 2015 Prof. J. Teisinger Medal of Honor Society of Occupational Medicine of the Czech Medical Association National Institute of Public Health Recognition of Major Contributions to the Development of Occupational Medicine
- 2022 Induction into European Academy of Sciences and Arts Member Recognition of the most successful European scientists
- 2023 Gold medal for Special Merits, Republic Austria Recipient Recognition by the Chancellor of Austria (Karl Nehammer) for service during the pandemic as member of GECKO
- 2024 Election to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Class II (Medicine)
