Discipline codes:
Environmental health and safety (03030101), Genetic predisposition (01060704), Epidemiology (03030202), Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified (01079999)
Supervised PhDs
Transplacental carcinogenic mechanisms of black carbon exposure (T-CAB)
Charlotte Van Der Stukken for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
The Childhood Urban and Internal Exposome on Brain and Bone Health
Hanne Croons for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
The impact of environmental exposures on cardiometabolic health and biological aging in children in different SES groups
Shradha Mishra for the title Doctor of Biomedical Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Impact of ambient air pollution during gestation on placental senescence
Joline Millen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Interplay of exposome, microbiome and inflammation on biological ageing
Liesa Engelen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Anna Elleby Soerensen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Urinary Biomarkers and Molecular Pathways of H-Type Hypertension in the Development of Atherosclerotic Diseases
Babangida Chori for the title Doctor of Biomedical Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Molecular aging trajectories in early life
Kathrin Barth for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Vitamin K gene-environment interaction in early life
Charalampia Ioannou for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
The role of the exposome in biological aging and appetite regulation across youth - The relation of the external exposome with telomeres and appetite hormones
Thaïs De Ruyter for the title Doctor of Biomedical Sciences in 2025
Supervised as Copromotor
The molecular and urban exposome signature of telomere length in early life: data-driven insights from birth cohort studies.
Congrong Wang for the title Doctor of Sciences in 2025
Trajectories of biological and epigenetic ageing from birth onwards
to unravel pathways of favourable and unfavourable cardiovascular
ageing. (Research)
01/10/2022 - 30/09/2025
Impact of ambient air pollution during gestation on placental senescence (Research)
01/10/2021 - 30/09/2025
Transplacental carcinogenic mechanisms of black carbon exposure (T-CAB) (Research)
01/09/2019 - 30/09/2024
Predictors and consequences of (poor) perinatal mental health. Influences of job activities, social support, and free time on perinatal mental health, and the consequences for the development during the first year of life. (Research)
01/09/2021 - 30/11/2022
The prenatal exposome and cardiovascular fetal programming: the
role of telomere ageing dynamics. (Research)
01/11/2019 - 31/10/2022
Research into the effect of resilience in the perinatal period (EF 56) (Research)
01/09/2019 - 30/06/2021
Research into the relationship between the presence of clean space and health with specific attention to the use of human biomonitoring and spatial aspects (Research)
27/11/2018 - 26/11/2020
Impact of atmospheric pollution on placental senescence (Research)