Marielle Wirth
Research assistant
Marielle Wirth is an epidemiologist and state-certified dietician with a B.Sc. in Dietetics (University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Fulda University of Applied Sciences).
During her bachelor's degree, she worked at the Scientific Center for Nutrition, Food and Sustainable Supply Systems (ZELVe) and at the Regional Innovation Center for Health and Quality of Life (RIGL) at Fulda University of Applied Sciences in the field of nutrition and health services research in qualitative research projects and a certification procedure for school catering (2018-2020). During her master's degree, she worked as a project coordinator at the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Studies (IZKS) of the University Medical Center Mainz in an epidemiological observational study and supported a clinical phase 3 study in clinical monitoring and safety management (2020-2022). She then conducted research at the Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and at the Interdisciplinary Center for Addiction and Drug Research (ISD) Hamburg in the fields of alcohol and cannabis (2022-2023). As a freelance honorary lecturer, she teaches at a vocational school for dietitians at the Saarland University Hospital (UKS) and in the Master of Science Epidemiology at the Institute for Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI) at the University Medical Center Mainz.
In her master's thesis, she developed and validated a multivariable risk prediction model for hepatic steatosis in people with HIV. Since April 2023, she has been a doctoral student and research assistant in the Department of Child Health Services Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.