New Professor of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology
The University Council has appointed Professor Julia Bielicki as clinical professor of pediatric clinical pharmacology. In the Department of Physics, Professor Admir Greljo is being promoted to associate professor.
23 September 2025
Julia Bielicki will take up her professorship in the Faculty of Medicine at University Children’s Hospital Basel (UKBB) on 1 October 2025. The appointment is a continuation of the Eckenstein-Geigy Research Chair of Pediatric Pharmacology. Bielicki currently works at both UKBB and City St George’s, University of London. In Basel, she heads the Pediatric Research Center and is a senior physician in the Department of Infectiology and Vaccinology.
Julia Bielicki studied medicine and social and political sciences at the University of Cambridge. She obtained her medical doctorate from the University of Zurich in 2006 and her specialist title in pediatric and adolescent medicine in 2009 and in infectious diseases in 2017. She completed a master’s program and a PhD in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In the same year, she completed her habilitation at the University of Basel with a focus on the prescription of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in neonatology and pediatrics.
Her research focuses on international, multicentric interventional studies in pediatric clinical pharmacology with a focus on antibiotic therapy. As a researcher and clinician, she is dedicated to the optimal use of antibiotics to treat infectious diseases in newborns and children. The aim of her work is to develop effective strategies for the evidence-based use of antibiotics in order to sustainably improve the care of children with infectious diseases around the world.
Promotion of Professor Admir Greljo
The University Council is promoting Professor Admir Greljo to associate professor, effective 1 August 2025. Admir Greljo has been a tenure track assistant professor of theoretical particle physics and cosmology in the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science since February 2023.