Dr. Alberto Castro Fernández

Professional experience

  • From 2020 Senior Scientific Collaborator and from 2023 Project Leader: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute / Department of Epidemiology and Public Health / Environmental Exposures and Health
  • 2018 - 2020 PostDoc: University of Basel / Faculty of Business and Economics
  • 2016 - 2019 PostDoc: University of Zurich / Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute / WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Health
  • 2013 - 2015 Research associate: University of Applied Sciences of Zurich / Institute of Sustainable Development / Team Sustainable Mobility
  • 2012 - 2012 Free-lance: Consulting for sustainable mobility
  • 2008 - 2011 Project assistant: Vienna University of Technology / Institute of Transportation / Research Unit Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering

Education

  • 2008 - 2011 PhD: Vienna University of Technology / Institute of Transportation / Research Unit Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering
  • 2000 - 2007 Civil Engineering: Polytechnical University of Madrid / Focus: Space planning, city planing and environment

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Castro A, Künzli N, de Hoogh K, Kappeler R, Kutlar Joss M, Vienneau D, Röösli M. Mortality attributable to ambient fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide in Switzerland in 2019: use of two-pollutant effect estimates. Environ Res. 2023;231(Pt 1):116029. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116029

Castro A, Kutlar Joss M, Röösli M. Quantifizierung des Gesundheitsnutzens der neuen Luftqualitätsleitlinien der Weltgesundheitsorganisation in der Schweiz: Projekt GeLuft, Projektbericht. Bern: Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU), 2023. DOI: 10.5451/unibas-ep96243

Castro A, Röösli M, de Hoogh K, Kappeler R, Kutlar Joss M, Vienneau D, Künzli N. Methods matter: a comparative review of health risk assessments for ambient air pollution in Switzerland. Public Health Rev. 2022;43:1604431. DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1604431