Curriculum Vitae – Summary (by March 2016) Surname/First Name Staub, Kaspar Title: Dr. phil. (PhD) Date of birth: 31.08.1976 (Age: 39) Home address: Stauffacherstrasse 80, CH-­3014 Bern, Switzerland Main Affiliation: Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM), University of Zurich E-­Mail: kaspar.staub@iem.uzh.ch Webpage: http://www.iem.uzh.ch/people/kasparstaub.html

Other Affiliation: Economic, Social and Environmental History, Institute of History, University of Bern

Current Positions: Senior Research Assistant (50%) and Deputy Head of the Evolutionary Morphology and Adaptation Group at the IEM (since 2014)

Institute Manager (50%) at the IEM (since 2014)

Lecturer at the Institute of History, University of Bern (since 2012)

Former Positions: 2005-­2009: Postgraduate Assistant (60%) at the Economic, Social and Environmental History (WSU) Department, Institute of History, University of Bern

2010-­2014: Postdoctoral Research Assistant (100%) at the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine (ZEM), Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich

2012-­2014: Research Manager/Project coordinator of the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine (ZEM), Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich

Education: 2005-­2010: PhD-­studies (Dr. phil.) in Economic, Social and Environmental History (WSU) at University of Bern, Switzerland

2013-­2014: Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Research Management (UniBE)

2014: Module Biostatistics, Master of Public Health at the Universities Bern, Zürich and Basel

2015-­2018: MSc Epidemiology studies (Distance Learning) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2016: SNSF Intern. Short Visit Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY

Research Topics: Overweight/obesity, Anthropometry (height/BMI, birth weight), (Historical) Epidemiology, Anthropometric History, Life Course, History of Health and Nutrition, (Historical) Demographics, Social Inequality, Quantitative Methods, 3D Body Scanning

Teaching: Since 2013: Regular courses in Evolutionary Medicine at MNF and MeF, UZH

Since 2012: Regular courses in Quantitative Methods and Health at Hist, UniBE

Since 2010: Regular courses in Quantitative Methods and Health at Econ, UZH

Academic Supervision: (Co-­)Supervision of >50 PhD, MA-­, BA-­ and Seminar-­thesis in History, Economics, Anthropology, Medicine, Master of Public Health at UZH and UniBE

Reviewer Activities: BMC Public Health, International Journal of Public Health, Swiss Medical Weekly, Economics and Human Biology, Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Homo, Journal for Biosocial Science, Annals of Human Biology, Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte

Scientific Presentations: Since 2005: >80 presentations at international scientific conferences

Meeting Organisation: Panel organiser at the Swiss History Days (Fribourg, 2013)

Panel organiser at the Eur. Society for Environmental History Conference (Munich, 2013)

Co-­Organiser of the International Evolutionary Medicine Conference 15 (Zurich, 2015)

Co-­Organiser Mini-­Symposium “Obesity: The evolution, the present and the future of a multi-­facetted condition” (Zurich, 2016)

Media Coverage: >70 reports (mentioned by name), incl. interviews in newspapers, radio, TV, etc.

External Funding: 2011-­2013: Live Experiment -­ A clinical trial live on a theatre stage (PI, CHF 35’000, SNSF)

2013-­2014: Explanations for regional and socio-­economic differences in BMI of Swiss conscripts 2004-­2012 (PI, CHF 65’000, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health)

2015: Evolutionary Medicine Conference (co-­applicant, CHF 21’000, SNSF, SAMW, KGF Novartis/Roche, Theiler Haag, etc.)

2015-­2016: Explanations for regional differences in exemptions from military service (PI, CHF 72’000, Swiss Armed Forces)

2015-­2018: Birth weight of newborns as a mirror of women’s standard of living in Switzerland during the 20th century (co-­applicant, CHF 441’000, SNSF)

2016: Goitre and cancer – Revisiting the first (and still cited) epidemiological studies on the hypothesised association from the 1920s (PI, CHF 7’000, SNSF Intern. Short Visit, NY)

Scientific Networks: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-­RisC)

“Hunger draws the map” (scientific collaboration research project together with scientists from the University of Oxford, Stanford University, and others)

“The decline of mortality and sanitary reforms” (scientific collaboration research project together with scientists from Lund University, the University of Glasgow, and others)

Member of the Auxological Society, Germany

Member of the Swiss Society of Anthropology

Publications (selected downloads from http://www.iem.uzh.ch/people/kasparstaub.html)

Publications: Peer-­reviewed: First authorship: 8;; Last authorship: 4;; Authorship: 12;; Book chapters: 7;; Books: 1 (PhD-­Thesis, planned for 2017);; Other publications (not peer-­reviewed): 9

Submitted or in review April 16: Peer-­reviewed: First authorship: 1;; Last authorship: 2;; Authorship: 3

a) Articles submitted and in review by April 2016

1. Panczak R, Held L, Moser A, Jones P, Ruhli F, Staub K. A tall order: small area mapping and modelling of adult height and its determinants among Swiss male conscripts. Economics and Human Biology, submitted (IF 1.901)

2. Floris J, Staub K, Woitek U. Birth Weights and Socio-­Economic Inequality in Basle during WWI. Journal of Economic History, submitted. (IF 1.29)

3. Papandreou A, Bopp M, Braun J, Staub K, Fäh D. Individual development of excess weight throughout school career in an urban setting: a longitudinal record linkage study. Public Health Nutrition, submitted. (IF 2.679)

4. Staub K, Bender N, Floris J, Pfister C, Rühli F. From Undernutrition to Overnutrition: The Evolution of Overweight and Obesity among Young Men in Switzerland since the 19th Century. Obesity Facts, in review (IF 2.245)

5. Lehmann A, Floris J, Woitek U, Rühli F, Staub K. The East caught up: Temporal trends, regional variation and socio-­economic differences in height, body mass index and body proportions among German conscripts, 1956–2010. Public Health Nutrition, in revision. (IF 2.679)

6. Bentham J, […], Rühli F, Staub K, […], et al. (NCD Risk Factor Collaboration). The height of the world – A century of adult human height in 200 countries: pooled analysis of 1,274 population-­based measurement studies with 14.7 million participants. eLife, in revision. (IF 9.322)

b) Published articles in peer-­reviewed Journals

1. Di Cesare M, […], Rühli F, Staub K, […], et al. (NCD Risk Factor Collaboration) (2016). The weight of the world – trends in adult body mass index in 200 countries since 1975: pooled analysis of 1,698 population-­based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants. The Lancet, published online April 1st, 2016 (IF 39.207)

2. Panczak R, Held L, Moser A, Jones P, Ruhli F, Staub K (2016). Finding ‘big shots’–spatial analyses of obesity among Swiss male conscripts 2010-­2012. BMC Obesity, 3:10. (IF not available yet, peer reviewed)

3. Bruggisser M, Burki D, Häusler M, Rühli F, Staub K (2016). Multivariable analysis of total cholesterol levels in male Swiss Armed Forces conscripts 2006-­2012 (N=174`872). BMC Cardiovascular Diseases, 16:43. (IF 1.88)

4. Staub K, Wyss T, Lehmann S, Abel T, Rühli F (2015): Die Gesundheit junger Schweizer Männer: Monitoring-­Ergebnisse der Rekrutierung. PRAXIS -­ Die Schweizer Fortbildungszeitschrift für Ärzte, 104(22):1203-­1210. (IF -­ , peer-­reviewed)

5. Staub K, Bender N, Ewald P, Rühli F (2015). Abstracts for the “Evolutionary Medicine Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Health and Disease” at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (July 30–August 1, 2015). Journal of Evolutionary Medicine 3, doi:10.4303/jem/235924. (IF -­ , peer-­reviewed)

6. Habicht ME, Henneberg M, Öhrström LM, Staub K, Rühli, FJ (2015). Body Height of Mummified Pharaohs Supports Historical Suggestions of Sibling Marriages. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 157(3):519-­525. (IF 2.379)

7. Staub K, Floris J, Woitek U, Rühli F (2014). From left-­skewness to symmetry – How human body height distribution among Swiss conscripts changed its shape between the late 19th century and today. Annals of Human Biology, 1-­8: published online. (IF 1.273)

8. Hermanussen M, Groth D, Alt C, Staub K, Assmann C (2014). The impact of physical connectedness on body height in Swiss conscripts. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 71 (4): 313-­327. (IF 0.676)

9. Hermanussen M, Brabec M, Bogin B, Staub K et al. (2014). Adolescent growth: Genes, Hormones and the peer group. Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews Mar 11 (3): 341-­53. (IF -­ , peer-­reviewed)

10. Hermanussen M, Alt C, Assmann C, Groth D, Staub K (2014). Final height, target height and the community. Georgian Medical News May (230): 30-­4. (IF -­ , peer-­reviewed)

11. Panczak R, Zwahlen M, Woitek U, Rühli F, Staub K (2014). Socioeconomic, temporal and regional variation in Body Mass Index among 188,537 Swiss conscripts born between 1886 and 1992. PLOS One 9(5): e96721. (IF 3.232)

12. Grantham JP, Staub K, Rühli FJ, Henneberg M (2014). Modern Diet and Metabolic Variance -­ A Recipe for Disaster? Nutrition Journal 13 (15): 1-­10. (IF 2.926)

13. Scheffler C, Gniosdorz B, Gierloff S, Staub K, Rühli F (2014). Skeleton robustness and bone strength measured by ultrasonic as function of physical activity in young adults. Am J Human Biol 26: 215-­220. (IF 1.7)

14. Holloway K, Staub K, Rühli F, Henneberg M (2013). Lessons from history of socioeconomic improvements: A new approach to treating multi-­drug-­resistant tuberculosis. Journal of Biosocial Science Sep, 46(5): 600-­620. (IF 1.26)

15. Staub K, Rühli F (2013). “From growth in height to growth in breadth”: The changing body shape of Swiss conscripts since the late 19th century and possible endocrine explanations. General and Comparative Endocrinology 188(1 July): 9–15. (IF 2.470)

16. Staub K, Woitek U, Pfister C, Rühli F (2013). [Overview over 10 years of anthropometric history in Switzerland: The secular trend, regional and socioeconomic differences in body height and shape since the 19th century]. Bulletin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie 18(2): 37–50. (IF -­ , peer-­reviewed)

17. Holloway KL, Henneberg RJ, De Barros Lopes M, Staub K, Link K, Rühli F, Henneberg M. (2013). Secular Trends in Tuberculosis during the Second Epidemiological Transition: A Swiss Perspective. Advances in Anthropology 3(2): 78-­90. (IF 0.8)

18. Papageorgopoulou C, Staub K, Rühli F (2012). Hypothyroidism in Switzerland from an anthropological, clinical and historic perspective. In: Harbeck M, Heyking v. K, Schwarzberg H (eds.) Sickness, Hunger, War and Religion. Rachel Carson Center Perspectives 3: 75-­91. (IF -­ , peer-­reviewed)

19. Hermanussen M, Bogin B, Godina E, Kaczmarek M, Rühli FJ, Staub K, Woitek U, van Buuren S, et al. (2012). Diversity in auxology: between theory and practice. Proceedings of the 18th Aschauer Soiree, 13th November 2010.

Anthropologischer Anzeiger 69(2): 159-­174. (IF 0.676)

20. Hermanussen M, Staub K, Assmann C, van Buuren S (2012). Dilemmas in Choosing and Using Growth Charts. Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews 9(3): 563-­569. (IF -­ , peer-­reviewed)

21. Schoch T, Staub K, Pfister C (2012). Social inequality, the biological standard of living, and body shapes. An analysis of Swiss conscription data 1875-­1950. Econ Hum Biol 10(2): 154-­173. (IF 1.901)

22. Staub K (2011). Grösser – und dicker. Körperhöhe und Body Mass Index im Kanton Bern seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte 73(4): 3-­39. (IF -­ , peer-­reviewed)

23. Staub K, Rühli F, Woitek U, Pfister C (2011). The average height of 18-­ and 19-­year-­old conscripts (N=458 322) in Switzerland, 1992-­2009, and the secular height trend since 1878. Swiss Med Wkly 2011;;141: w13238. (IF 2.086)

24. Staub K, Rühli F, Bogin B, Woitek U, Pfister C (2011). Edouard Mallet’s early and almost forgotten study of the average height of Genevan conscripts in 1835. Econ Hum Biol 9(4): 438-­442. (IF 1.901)

25. Staub K, Rühli F, Woitek U, Pfister C (2010). BMI distribution/social stratification in Swiss conscripts from 1875 to present. Eur J Clin Nutr 64(4): 335-­340. (IF 2.709)

c) Published articles in non-­peer-­reviewed Journals

1. Staub K (2015). Stellungspflichtige im Gesundheitscheck. Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung im Kanton Zürich 37: 8. (IF -­ , not peer-­reviewed)

2. Staub K, Rühli F (2014). Der BMI von Schweizer Stellungspflichtigen im Jahr 2013: Weitere Stabilisierung von Übergewicht und Adipositas. Schweizerische Ärztezeitung 95:48. (IF -­ , not peer-­reviewed)

3. Staub K, Woitek U, Rühli F (2013). Wissenschaft: Grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeiten mit anthropometrischen und medizinischen Daten der Rekrutierung. Informationsschrift KSD 1/13: 41-­44. (IF -­ , not peer-­reviewed)

4. Staub K, Rühli F (2014). Der Body Mass Index der Schweizer Stellungspflichtigen 2013 im Lichte der historischen Entwicklung der medizinischen Untersuchung bei der Rekrutierung. Koordinierter Sanitätsdienst: Informationsschrift über den KSD in der Schweiz (2): 39-­44. (IF -­ , not peer-­reviewed)

5. Panczak R, Woitek U, Rühli F, Staub K (2013). Regionale und sozio-­ökonomische Unterschiede im Body Mass Index (BMI) von Schweizer Stellungspflichtigen 2004-­2012. Bulletin Bundesamt für Gesundheit 47: 857-­859. (IF -­ , not peer-­reviewed)

6. Panczak R, Woitek U, Rühli F, Staub K (2013). Regionale und sozio-­ökonomische Unterschiede im Body Mass Index (BMI) von Schweizer Stellungspflichtigen 2004-­2012. Final Report for the Federal Office of Public Health (124p), public released in October 2013.

7. Pfister C, Staub K (2006). Der alte Streit um die „richtige“ Diät. Tabula 3: 8-­9. (IF -­ , not peer-­reviewed)

8. Pfister C, Staub K (2006). Die Geburt des Schlankheitsideals. Tabula 3: 4-­7. (IF -­ , not peer-­reviewed)

d) Monographs

1. Staub K (2010). [The biological standard of living in Switzerland since 1800: A historic-­anthropometric study on changes in height and weight, differentiated by sex, regional and socio-­economic background]. PHD-­Thesis (342p), Institute of History, University of Bern, Book publication with Schwabe Verlag planned for 2017.

e) Published book chapters

1. Staub K (2016). Der vermessene menschliche Körper als Spiegel der Ernährungs-­ und Gesundheitsverhältnisse am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges. In: Pfister C, et al. (eds.): Krise, Krieg und Verletzlichkeit: Die Schweiz und die Herausforderungen der Jahre 1916-­1918. Schwabe (20p.). In print.

2. Staub K (2014). Die mittlere Körperhöhe in Nidwalden als Spiegel des steigenden Lebensstandards seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. In: Peter Steiner P, et al. (eds). Geschichte des Kantons Nidwalden, Band 2, Stans, p. 39

3. Grantham JP, Staub K, Rühli F, Henneberg M. Metabolic Obesity: The Role of Alanine Transaminase. In: Health Consequences of Human Central Obesity, Nova Press, K. Bose (eds).

4. Hermanussen M, Aßmann C, Staub K (2013): The Community Effect in Swiss Conscripts. In: Hermanussen M (ed.): Auxology. Studying Human Growth and Development: 72-­73.

5. Staub K, Rühli F, Woitek U (2013): Impact and Pitfalls of Conscription Data. In: Hermanussen M (ed.): Auxology. Studying Human Growth and Development: 146-­149.

6. Staub K (2011). Der biologische Lebensstandard im Kanton Bern seit 1800. In: Martig P et al. (eds.): Berns moderne Zeit. Das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt. Stämpfli Verlag: 146.

7. Schoch T, Staub K (2011). Statistik – Die amtliche Statistik in der Schweiz. Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz HLS, http://www.hls-­dhs-­dss.ch/textes/d/D13798-­1-­2.php

f) Published conference abstracts

1. Staub K, Rühli F (2015). The rise of the obesity epidemic has come to a halt among young Swiss men. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 296.

2. Staub K, Floris J, Rühli F, Woitek U (2015). Selected sanitary reforms in Switzerland and their impact on mortality during the 19th and 20th centuries—A cantonal analysis. Journal of Evolutionary Medicine 3: 18.

3. Staub K, Bender N, Rühli F (2015). Secular trends in weight and height and their interrelationship in Swiss conscripts over 130 years. Journal of Evolutionary Medicine 3: 27.

4. Floris J, Staub K, Woitek U (2015). Birth weight inequality in Basle during World War I. Journal of Evolutionary Medicine 3: 32.

5. Panczak R, Held L, Moser A, Jones P, Ruhli F, Staub K (2014). Finding ‘big shots’–spatial analyses of obesity among Swiss male conscripts 2010-­2012. Europ J of Public Health 24 (suppl 2): 148.

6. Lehmann A, Woitek U, Rühli F, Staub K (2013). “From growth in height to growth in breadth”: The change of body dimensions in Swiss and Germany conscripts since 1950 and its impact for epidemiological obesity research. Obes Facts 6 (Suppl 1): 204.

7. Staub K, Hermanussen M, Woitek U, Rühli F (2012). Regional variance in average height of 19-­years-­old conscripts in Switzerland in 1884-­1891 and 2006-­2009, and recent overweight prevalence on district level. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 68(4): 524-­525.

8. Hermanussen M, Assmann C, Staub K (2012). The community effect in growth regulation. Annals of Human Biology 39(5): 449-­450.

9. Staub K, Bogin B, Woitek U, Pfister C, Rühli F (2012). From growth in height to growth in breadth”: The changing body in Switzerland since the 19th century. Annals of Human Biology 39, 458.

10. Staub K, Rühli F, Schoch T, Woitek U, Pfister C (2011). Social und regional stratification in Body Mass Index of 18-­and 19-­year-­old Swiss conscripts 1992-­2009 (N= 460'887) and its secular trend since 1875. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144: 283-­284.