Dr Tobias Haeusermann is a Sociologist and Affiliated Researcher at the Department and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the UCSF Decision Lab at the Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco. His current research aims to understand the ethical concerns in existing clinical applications of closed-loop neuromodulation in epilepsy, movement disorders and mood disorders. He is also part of UCSF's Institute for Health Policy Studies and its newly established Medical Cultures Lab, a collaborative of social scientists working on methods innovations and the culture of medicine.
He received his PhD and Master of Philosophy degrees in sociology from the University of Cambridge. During his doctoral studies he held a research fellowship at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and was a member of its Long-term Care and Dementia group. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute of the University of Zurich and for the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich. Thereafter, he taught as student supervisor at the University of Cambridge and was a visiting fellow at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford.