Dr. Fran­zis­ka Mat­thies-Wies­ler

Rese­arch Asso­cia­te

Mini CV

  • At CPHP sin­ce May 2022
  • PhD in Epi­de­mio­lo­gy from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Basel
  • MSc in Bio­lo­gy from the Lud­wig Maxi­mi­li­an Uni­ver­si­ty Munich
  • Tech­ni­cal Offi­cer at the WHO Regio­nal Office for Euro­pe
  • Con­sul­tant at the Ger­man Advi­so­ry Coun­cil on Glo­bal Chan­ge (WBGU)
  • Assistant Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Copen­ha­gen, Hei­del­berg and Lau­sanne
  • Pots­dam Insti­tu­te for Cli­ma­te Impact Rese­arch (PIK) and Tynd­all Cent­re for Cli­ma­te Chan­ge Rese­arch

Pro­fi­le

Fran­zis­ka Mat­thies-Wies­ler is a rese­arch asso­cia­te at the Cent­re for Pla­ne­ta­ry Health Poli­cy (CPHP) in Ber­lin and works on health-rela­ted heat pro­tec­tion and for the Lan­cet Count­down on Health and Cli­ma­te Chan­ge Poli­cy Brief for Ger­ma­ny. She also con­ducts rese­arch at the Insti­tu­te of Epi­de­mio­lo­gy at Helm­holtz Zen­trum Mün­chen on envi­ron­ment and health (pri­ma­ri­ly on issues of cli­ma­te chan­ge adapt­a­ti­on and extre­me wea­ther events) and on agen­da-set­ting in rese­arch. Pri­or to joi­ning CPHP, she work­ed free­lan­ce in tea­ching, rese­arch, and poli­cy con­sul­ting on envi­ron­ment and health, health in the United Nati­ons Sus­tainable Deve­lo­p­ment Goals (SDGs), and on lin­king glo­bal envi­ron­men­tal chan­ge to health and on the chan­ge to sus­taina­bi­li­ty. Pre­vious­ly, she gai­ned diver­se expe­ri­ence in cli­ma­te chan­ge and health through her work for the WHO Regio­nal Office for Euro­pe, WBGU, and the Tyn­dal Cent­re for Cli­ma­te Chan­ge Rese­arch. Her PhD the­sis focu­sed on medi­cinal plants for the tre­at­ment of mala­ria in Tan­z­a­nia.

Lan­guages

Ger­man
Eng­lish
French
Ita­li­an

CPHP-Publi­ca­ti­ons

2023
Mai­ke Voss, Sophie Gepp, Niko­laus C.S. Mez­ger, Dr. Fran­zis­ka Mat­thies-Wies­ler, Bea Alber­mann, Mai­ke Bild­hau­er
Dri­ving trans­for­ma­ti­ve action: from Ost­ra­va to Buda­pest and bey­ond with Natio­nal Port­fo­li­os of Actions on Envi­ron­ment and Health: poli­cy brief
This WHO poli­cy brief was draf­ted by Mai­ke Voss and Fran­zis­ka Mat­thies-Wies­ler with addi­tio­nal rese­arch sup­port from Bea Alber­mann, Sophie Gepp, Mau­rice Remy, Niko­laus Metz­ger and Mai­ke Bild­hau­er.

Resour­ces

2021
Mai­ke Voss, Sophie Gepp, Dr. Fran­zis­ka Mat­thies-Wies­ler, Dr. Chris­ti­an Schulz, Lau­ra Jung, Dr. Alex­an­dra Schnei­der, Dr. Susan­ne Breit­ner-Busch
The Lan­cet Count­down on Health and Cli­ma­te Chan­ge
Poli­cy Brief for Ger­ma­ny 2021
2020
Katha­ri­na Wab­nitz, Dr. Fran­zis­ka Mat­thies-Wies­ler, Dr. Alex­an­dra Schnei­der, Dr. Susan­ne Breit­ner-Busch, Mar­tin Herr­mann, Dr. Peter von Phil­ips­born, Dr. Petra Thor­brietz, Karin Geffert
The Lan­cet Count­down on Health and Cli­ma­te Chan­ge 2020
Poli­cy Brief für Deutsch­land 2020