Matthias Egger

American psychologist

Matthias Egger is professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Bern in Switzerland, as well as professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.²

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Born Jun 10, 1957.¹

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Swiss National Science FoundationChair 2017 to 2024¹⁷

Early life and education

1983University of Bern Staatsexamen; medicine^{3 4}
Date not recordedLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine^{3 4}

Egger completed his clinical training at the University of Bern and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He joined the faculty of the University of Bern in 2002, and also became a professor at the University of Bristol that year. From 2017 to 2024, Matthias Egger was president of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Career

Occupation: university teacher, epidemiologist, researcher, physician.¹³

Since 2018Worked at The Ocean Cleanup Foundation^{5 10}
Until 2018Worked at Aarhus University^{5 6}
Since 2017President, Swiss National Science Foundation¹¹
2017 to 2024Chair, Swiss National Science Foundation¹²
2016 to 2017Postdoctoral researcher, Aarhus University^{5 9}
2016Postdoctoral researcher, Utrecht University^{5 8}
2012 to 2016Doctoral candidate, Utrecht University^{5 7}
Date not recordedWorked at University of Bristol⁵
Date not recordedWorked at University of Bern⁵

In 1997, Egger published a paper describing a method for detecting bias in meta-analyses by analyzing funnel plots. This paper has been cited more than 38,600 times on Google Scholar as of May 2022.

In 2005, Egger published a study comparing 110 trials of homeopathy with 110 trials of conventional medicine in the Lancet. It found that there was strong evidence that conventional medicine was more effective than placebo, but only weak evidence that homeopathy was. Egger told WebMD that in this study, "The effect of homeopathy disappears if you look only at large, good trials; whereas the conventional medicines' effect is still there."

Egger has also published research on a wide variety of other medical topics, such as the demographics of people who choose assisted suicide, the association between exposure to aircraft noise and heart attacks, and the effectiveness of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines.

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Personal life

BornJun 10, 1957, Bern^{4 14}
CitizenshipSwitzerland¹⁵

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WikidataMatthias Egger: President, Swiss National Science Foundation, on Wikidata
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