Konstantina Boutsika, PhD
Function(s)
Senior Scientific Project Leader
Organisational Entity
Profile
Professional activities at Swiss TPH
- Coordinate the activities of three Roll Back Malaria Working Groups (Vector Control, Case Management, Multisectoral Action)
- Manage the activities of the Swiss TPH Malaria Initiative
- Teach in the frame of Swiss TPH courses
- Supervise junior staff and students working on related projects
- Organize the Swiss TPH Seminar Series
Higher education and qualifications
- PhD, 2002 in Biological Sciences (Nematology and Plant Pathology-Virology), University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
- MSc, 1998 Honours 1st Class in Natural Sciences (Virology), Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari (IAM-B), Bari, Italy
- BSc, 1994 Honours 1st Class in Crop Protection, University of Agricultural Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece
Past professional activities
- From July 2017: Scientific Project Leader, Health Interventions Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland
- 2012-2017: Project Leader, Health Interventions Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland
- 2012-2013: Project Manager, Health Systems Research and Dynamical Modelling Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland
- 2007-2011: Database Scientist, Biostatistics and Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
- 2003-2007: Lecturer in plant cell and molecular biology at Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2003-2007: Postdoctoral research fellow in Epigenetics at Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) for Biomedical Research, Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
- 2002-2003: Research associate in Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, Scotland, UK
- 2000-2002: Associate lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
- 1994-1997: Research associate in the Virological Laboratory of Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Athens, Greece