Marco Riguzzi is a senior nursing scientist and implementation researcher at the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care (IfIS) at the University of Zurich (UZH) and at the Center for Clinical Nursing Science (ZKPW) at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) in Switzerland, who also has a background in health services research and health economics. His research combines nursing science, clinical research and implementation science with a focus on the physical and mental health, functioning, management and resilience of families in vulnerable situations, such as a close other suffering from critical illness or injury, and the bereavement of a family member. It primarily concerns the settings of intensive care and palliative care in hospitals but also extends to the care of patients by family members at home and the bereavement phase. He uses different methodological approaches rooted in nursing science, social sciences, psychology, economics and other disciplines to investigate the effects of family support interventions and models of care on individual and family illness management skills and mental health outcomes, with a special focus on how evidence-based interprofessional care and bereavement support are successfully implemented and sustained in routine practice. He also evaluates health technology assessment reports commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). He currently teaches quantitative empirical methods, implementation science methods, and evaluation of empirical research at UZH, Karolinska Institute Stockholm (KI, Sweden), and Careum School of Health Zürich (CHG, Switzerland). He was previously a senior researcher at CHG and at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW, Switzerland) and received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Bern (UB, Switzerland) in 2013.

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