December 2015 - Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM)

December 2015 - Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM)

Joël Floris
Curriculum Vitae
University of Zurich
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zürich
+41 76 570 77 14
+41 44 635 05 35
joel.floris@iem.uzh.ch
Personal information
Date of birth: 5th September 1981
Citizenship: Swiss
Current position
Since Dec. Postdoctoral researcher (50%), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
2015 funded research project, Birth weight of newborns as a mirror of women’s standard
of living: Evidence from birth records in the city of Basle 1888-1939, Economic
History, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Since Sept. Postdoctoral researcher (40%), Evolutionary Morphology and Adaptation Group,
2015 Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Former position
2014 – 2015 Research assistant (50%), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funded
research project, Sports and the Biological Standard of Living.
Prof. Dr. Helmut Dietl: Services & Operations Management Chair (Department of Business
Administration) and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Woitek: Economic History Chair (Department of
Economics), University of Zurich, Switzerland
Fall Semester Master’s degree programme coordinator and student advisor (30%), MA
2014 Wirtschaftsgeschichte und Ökonomie / Economic History, University of Zurich,
Switzerland.
2010 – 2014 Research and teaching assistant (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Woitek: Economic History Chair), Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Education
2010 - 2015 Doctoral studies in history, Department of History, University of Zurich,
Switzerland.
2006 – 2011 Teaching diploma for secondary education, Institute of educational sciences,
University of Zurich, Switzerland.
2003 – 2009 M.A. in history (major), constitutional law (minor) and economic sciences
(minor), Department of History, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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1996 – 2002 Matura (i. e. baccalaureate certificate, entitled to enroll in Swiss universities), Kantonsschule Zurich-Oerlikon (i. e. baccalaureate school), Switzerland.
Research interests
Anthropometric history, economic, health and social history of Switzerland, history
of statistics, quantitative economic history, demography
Publications
Kaspar Staub, Joël Floris, Ulrich Woitek, and Frank Rühli. From left-skewness to
symmetry: How body-height distribution among swiss conscripts has changed shape
since the late 19th century. Annals of Human Biology, 2014. Published online 22
August 2014.
Joël Floris, Ulrich Woitek, and Gabriela Wüthrich. Income inequality amongst
swiss primary school teachers in the late 19th century. Economic History Yearbook,
1:57–74, 2013.
Joël Floris. The biological standard of living in the canton of zurich 1919 to 1951:
an anthropometric historical analysis of three military district commands. Bulletin
der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, 18(2):13–23, 2012. (printed in
2013).
Work in progress
The biological standard of Living in Zurich and Basle, 1904-1951 (Doctoral thesis)
Sports and the biological standard of living (SNSF funded project)
Birth weight as an anthropometric indicator for socio-economic inequality in Basle
during WWI (with Kaspar Staub and Ulrich Woitek)
The biological standard of living in Zurich during WWI (with Consuela Müller and
Ulrich Woitek)
The biological standard of living of Swiss mercenaries (with Frank Rühli, Kaspar
Staub and Ulrich Woitek)
Conference presentations
2015 XVIIth World Economic History Congress, Diversity in Development, Kyoto, Japan
2015 Evolutionary Medicine Conference: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Human Health
and Disease, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
2014
2013
2013
Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Annual Congress, Basle, Switzerland
European Social Science History Confernce, Vienna, Austria
European Historical Economics Society Conference, London, United Kingdom
European Society for Environmental History Conference, Munich, Germany
2013 25. Arbeitstagung der Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Salzburg,
Austria (poster presentation)
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2011 Jahresversammlung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Zurich,
Switzerland
2011 European Historical Economics Society Conference, Dublin, Ireland
2010 Handeln und Institutionen (HUI) Seminar, Wildhaus, Switzerland
Science communication
2012 Scientifica, Zurich Science Days, Gesünder - grösser - dicker? (healthier - taller bigger?), in collaboration with Kaspar Staub, Martin Häusler, Ulrich Woitek, Frank
Rühli
Teaching experience
University
Autumn 2015 Lecturer, BA-Seminar: Methods in Quantitative Economic History, University of
Zurich
Spring 2015 Lecturer, Colloquium, Introduction to Empirical Methods for Historians, University
of Zurich
2010 – 2015 Tutor, BA-Seminar: Methods in Quantitative Economic History, University of Zurich
Spring 2014 Lecturer, Colloquium, Introduction to Statistical Methods for Historians, University
of Zurich
Spring 2014 Tutor, MA-Seminar: Quantitative Economic History: New Deal, University of Zurich
Spring 2013 Tutor, MA-Seminar: Swiss Economy in War Periods, University of Zurich
Spring 2010 Tutor, BA-Seminar: Financial Market Crises in the 20th Century, University of
Zurich
Autumn 2010 Tutor, BA-Tutorial: Quantitative Economic History, University of Zurich
Secondary education
2007 – 2011 Substitute Teacher, Secondary Education Level (High Schools), Zurich
Additional working experience
03.09 – 07.11 Library staff, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
07.03 – 06.09 Regional director and district coordinator (voluntary work), Youth for Understanding
(youth exchange), Berne, Switzerland
04.06 – 03.09 Assistant to the secretariat, International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission,
Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Berne, Switzerland
07.05 – 04.06 Air traffic employee, Swissport International Ltd., Zurich Aiport, Switzerland
Languages
German
French
English
Spanish
Native language
Native language
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
Diploma Nivel Intermedio, (B2-C1)
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Computer
OS Linux, Windows, Mac
Software Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, R (statistical computing), LaTex, JabRef, Aleph
(integrated library system)
Interests
Sports (especially Tennis), novels, cross-cultural activities, languages, politics
Zurich, 23rd December 2015
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