EXPANSE - Key Persons


Annette Peters

Job Titles:
  • COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE 2
  • Director of the Institute of Epidemiology Helmholtz Zentrum München
Annette is the Director of the Institute of Epidemiology Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, and full professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Medical Information Sciences, Biometry and Epidemiology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany.

Cathryn Tonne

Job Titles:
  • COORDINATOR
Cathryn is an environmental epidemiologist Barcelona at the Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) focusing on broad issues around the influence of the physical environment on health and health inequalities. Much of her research has focused on the health effects of air pollution from traffic and household sources.

Erik Melén

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of the Institute of Environmental Medicine
  • COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE 3
Erik is Associate Professor of the Institute of Environmental Medicine of the Karolinska Institute and Pediatric allergist at Sachs Children's Hospital in Stockholm. He is a clinician and epidemiologist with extensive experience working with large-scale environmental and genetic data in relation to health outcomes.

Jelle Vlaanderen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Project Coordinator
  • Assistant Professor in Exposome Science at Utrecht University
  • COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE 6
Jelle is an assistant professor in molecular epidemiology. His research interest lies in conducting studies and developing approaches that contribute to the elucidation of the role of environmental factors in disease etiology. In practice this translates into a focus on the use of molecular markers in association with both environmental exposures and disease or early health effects and on the development and implementation of methods that contribute to causal inference in epidemiological studies. Jelle is Assistant Professor in Exposome Science at Utrecht University and is project leader of EXPANSE. He conducts his research within fields of interest ‘air pollution', ‘occupational risk factors', and ‘cancer'.

Kees de Hoogh

Job Titles:
  • COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE 1
Kees is Senior Scientific Collaborator at the Environmental Exposures and Health Unit, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland. Kees specialises in spatial modelling and exposure assessment for studies on environment and health.

Laurien Ulfman

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Marc Chadeau

Job Titles:
  • COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE 5
Marc is Reader in Computational Epidemiology and Exposome Sciences at Imperial College, London. He led the statistical work from two large-scale EU-funded exposome projects, and several methodological projects on the development and application of novel statistical techniques to explore complex molecular effects of the exposome, including socio economic factors.

Richard Horton

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief of the Lancet

Roel Vermeulen

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
  • PROJECT COORDINATOR
  • Professor of Environmental Epidemiology
Roel is a Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Exposome Science. His scentific research focuses on environmental risk factors for non-communicable diseases with a strong emphasis on integrating epidemiology, high quality exposure assessment, and molecular biology into multidisciplinary investigations. He is the director of the Utrecht Exposome Hub. Roel is PI of several large case-control and prospective occupational and general population studies.

Tõnu Esko

Job Titles:
  • COORDINATOR WORK PACKAGE 7
Tõnu is a senior researcher of functional and population genomics and vice director of the Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia. His main contributions are on the field of molecular diagnostics, human genetics and genomics and biobanks.