Michelle Loher

Michele Loher is a Doctoral Research Associate at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, part of the University of Zurich. She holds a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Zurich, preceded by a second Bachelor's in Psychology and a first Bachelor's in Nursing from Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on developmental aspects of substance use and its associations with violence among adolescents and young adults, leveraging data from longitudinal studies like the Zurich Project on Social Development (z-proso).

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
• Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Zurich
• Master of Science in Psychology, University of Zurich

Her work includes roles as a nurse in elderly care, a tutor for undergraduate psychology students, and a research assistant at the Jacobs Center. She currently holds a 4-year Swiss National Science Doc.CH grant funding her doctoral research in the Risk & Resilience laboratory. Key research themes involve understanding trajectories of substance use and its societal impacts.

Labs/Teams: Active contributor to the Zurich Youth Surveys (ZYS) and the Risk & Resilience research group at the Jacobs Center.