Curriculum Vitae Luis Filgueira
Professional Background:
1979 - 1985 Medical Faculty of the University of Basel, Switzerland
1987 Doctorate in Medicine University of Basel
1986 - 1988 Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Teaching and Research Fellow
1988 - 1989 Regionalspital Laufenburg, Switzerland
Assistant Doctor in Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
1989 - 1990 Children’s Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Assistant Doctor in Children’s Surgery and Intensive Care
1990 - 1993 Department of Research and Department of Surgery, University Hospital,
Basel, Switzerland
Assistant Doctor: Research, General Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery
1994 - 2001 Division of Cell Biology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich,
Switzerland
Senior Teaching and Research Fellow
Habilitation Anatomy, University of Zurich, 2001
2001 - 2012 School of Anatomy and Human Biology, UWA
2001 Senior Teaching and Research Fellow
2003 Senior Lecturer (Level C)
2009 Professor (Level D)
Since October 2012 Chair of Anatomy (Full Professor, permanent position),
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Research, Scholarship and Original Achievement
During my research career, I have always delivered sustained, substantial and exceptional research and scholarship, supported by publication, acquisition of external funding and supervision of research students. I have successfully build infrastructure and expertise in various biomedical research areas, including, including bone biology and immunology, metals in medicine, breast stem cell, as well as clinical anatomy.
Since 2012, 26 manuscripts have been published in peer review international journals with my name as senior author on many of them.
To date, I supervised 14 Honours/Masters and 10 PhD student to successful completion.
I have contributed as panel member to the NHMRC (Australia) for the evaluation of project grant applications and as reviewer to the SNF (Switzerland), NHMRC, ARC (Australia) for project and program grant applications, as well as for fellowships. I also contributed as reviewer in the evaluation process of publications to various international journals.
To date, I acquired around US$ 1 Mio of external funding from various international public and private funding agencies, including the NIH (USA) and the SNF (Switzerland).
Teaching and Learning
I have been enjoying very much teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, science students and research students. My teaching of undergraduate and research students has always been of excellent quality as documented through regular evaluation. By introducing a variety of new teaching material and content, I have significantly contributed to innovation in teaching at high academic level. For many years I have been teaching in anatomy, histology, embryology, as well as cell biology and immunology.
I have been very innovative in introducing new teaching methods and approaches, as well as in including my teaching in formal research projects to get a scientific evaluation of it.
In addition, I have put a lot of emphasize on teaching research students in scientific literature, including literature research, designing projects, scientific writing and publishing. One important aim of supervision of research students is to enable them to complete their research project in time and to publish their work in an international peer review journal.
I have been supervising research students and corresponding projects in the areas of anatomy, cell biology, immunology, stem cells, vascular biology, bone biology and metals in medicine, as well as educational research. I have always enjoyed exploring new research topics and developing or establishing new research methods to answer new important questions in biomedical research and education.
