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Dr. Monique Stenzel

Monique Stenzel is a sociologist with a focus on quantitative methods, social medicine, and the digital support of medical research. She studied sociology with a focus on economics as an elective subject at Heidelberg University, graduating in 2003, and specialized in medical sociology and population-based statistical methods. In her diploma thesis, she empirically examined the impact of social networks on mortality risk, taking stress exposure into account.

She received her PhD in 2006 from the Universities of Giessen and Marburg. In her doctoral dissertation, she applied the DALY framework to data from the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) to assess the efficiency of allocation mechanisms in kidney transplantation from a health economic and social medical perspective.

Subsequently, Monique Stenzel spent many years working in (social) medical research, including in roles as a project lead. At Heidelberg University, she led a DFG-funded research project on Migration and Health based on SHARE data, which she had acquired independently.

In addition to her academic work, she gained several years of industry experience in product management at a software company developing quality assurance solutions for hospitals. She later worked at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, where she contributed to the development of a web-based application supporting comparison group selection (matching) in medical research. Her work aims to make methodologically complex analytical approaches more accessible and reproducible through digital tools, thereby improving data quality for subsequent analyses.

Research Interests

  • Digital health and digital methods in medical research
  • Methodological support for evidence-based medicine
  • Evaluation of interventions
  • Social inequality and participation

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