Forschungsinstitut für
Spiritualität und Gesundheit
Research Institute for
Spirituality and Health
Advisory Board
To promote the scientific orientation and networking of the research institute, an interdisciplinary and international advisory board was set up in 2005. This board supports RISH in scientific issues and in the development of the institute and its activities.
The following persons constitute the current Scientific Advisory Board:
Prof. Dr. Mathias Allemand
URPP Dynamics of Healthy Aging and Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Curriculum vitae
- Since 2016 Assistant Professor in Differential Healthy Aging Research at the University of Zurich
Priorities
- Personality dynamics of healthy aging
- Personality development in adulthood and old age
- Personality assessment in daily life and in the lab
- Personality-informed interventions and counseling
- Longitudinal research methods for studying daily life
Prof. Dr. med. Jean-Marc Burgunder
University Hospital for Neurology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
Curriculum vitae
- Visiting Professor of Neurogenetics, Sichuan University of Chengdu and Central South University of Changsha, China
- Adjunct Professor of Neurology, Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Neurologist and Konsiliar for Neurogenetics, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
- Head of the Swiss Huntington Competence Center at the Siloah Foundation, Gümligen, Switzerland
Priorities
- Experimental neurology, neurogenetics
- Neuroscience and spirituality
Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Büchi
Medical Faculty, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Curriculum vitae
- Professor of Psychosocial Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Zurich
- Medical Director and Head of the Centre of Excellence for Psychosomatics, Privatklinik Hohenegg, Meilen
Priorities
- Disease management
- Psycho-oncology
- Shared decision making
- Quality of life and suffering
- Effective factors in the therapeutic relationship
Prof. Dr. Stefan Huber
Faculty of Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Curriculum vitae
- Since 2012: Professor of „Empirical Research on Religion and Theory of Interreligious Communication“, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Habilitation in Religious Studies in Bochum, Germany
- Promotion in Psychology of Religion in Fribourg, Switzerland
Priorities
- Social sciences modeling of religion, religiosity and spirituality
- Autonomous structures and dynamics of the religious experience and behavior
- Religious and non-religious conditions and effects of high religiosity
Prof. Dr. med. Samuel Pfeifer
Protestant College Tabor, Marburg, Germany
Curriculum vitae
- Since 2015 Professor at the Protestant College Tabor in Marburg on the Master's program "Religion and Psychotherapy", Germany
- Chief physician of the Psychiatric Clinic Sonnenhalde, Riehen, Switzerland
- Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy
Priorities
- Integrating Psychotherapy and Spirituality
- Subthreshold disorders of psychological well-being (in particular the phenomenon of excessive sensitivity)
- Psychopathology and Religion
Prof. Harold G. Koenig, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
Curriculum vitae
- Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Associate Professor for Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, P. R. China
Priorities
- Religion, medicine and health
- Integration of religion and spirituality in health care