Zenghui Ma is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Environmental Sciences at Hasselt University. She is currently working on epidemiological investigations on potential effects of Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) during pregnancy and early life. She obtained her medical bachelor’s and master’s degree in China and her master degree in statistics and data science in …
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Kuanliang Shao
Kuanliang Shao is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. His research focuses on developing an analytical framework using untargeted Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography (PY-GC/HRMS) and Liquid Chromatography (LC/HRMS) coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry, with the goal of facilitating efficient and cost-effective detection …
Bethany Knox
Bethany Knox is a pre-doctoral student studying environmental epidemiology and the chemical pregnancy exposome at ISGlobal in Barcelona. Her predoctoral studies investigate the effects of various chemical exposures and microplastics on fetal and infant growth and development and placental function. She aims to quantify the effects of these chemical mixtures with a focus on fetal …
Amanda Durkin
Amanda Durkin is a PhD candidate in environmental epidemiology at the University Medical Center Utrecht. She currently contributes to epidemiological investigations and risk assessment of microplastics in maternal and fetal exposures. She obtained her BSc in Environmental Health from the University of Washington, Seattle and her MSc in Health Sciences from the Vrije Universitiet, Amsterdam. …
Runyu Zou
Runyu Zou is an Assistant Professor of environmental epidemiology and exposome science at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He obtained his medical bachelor’s degree and MPH degree in China, and MSc (Epidemiology) and PhD in the Netherlands. During his PhD and 1-year postdoc research at Erasmus MC, he examined perinatal determinants of child brain development, …
Martine Vrijheid
Martine Vrijheid is a Research Professor with a research focus on environment and child health with a special interest in the effects of environmental chemical exposures, including a range of plastic-associated chemicals. She leads and has led numerous national and international projects on these topics. She coordinated the HELIX (FP7) project, spearheading a more holistic …
Nelly Saenen
Nelly Saenen is a doctor-assistant in the Biodiversity & Toxicology group at the UHasselt Centre for Environmental Sciences (CMS) and supports the Environmental & Molecular Epidemiology research within CMS. Her research interests situate within an interdisciplinary setting of epidemiology and toxicology to explore “Environment and Health”-related topics. Her current research focuses on the toxicokinetics of …
Tim Nawrot
Tim Nawrot heads the environmental and molecular epidemiology research unit at Hasselt University. He has initiated the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort in the framework of an ERC grant (2012), and he is (or was) part of the EU EXPoSOMICS (FP7), the STOP (H2020), and HBM4EU consortium (H2020). Prof. Nawrot has considerable publications in the field of …
Douglas Walker
Douglas Walker, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Through the application of high-resolution mass spectrometry platforms, Dr. Walker’s research has shown it is possible to provide measures of up to 100,000 chemical signals in a cost-effective manner using a single human blood sample, providing a key …
Payam Dadvand
Payam Dadvand is a medical doctor by training and has a PhD in environmental epidemiology. For the last decade he has conducted pioneering studies on the impacts of both environmental stressors (e.g. air pollution) and environmental mitigation measures (e.g. green spaces) on maternal and child health applying his expertise in using remote sensing data, GIS-based …