Nina has a master’s degree in Health Sciences from the VU Amsterdam and is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences at Utrecht University. Her doctoral research focuses on advancing exposure assessment methods within the context of the external exposome, with an emphasis on the transition from static residential exposure to mobility-based assessment. Ultimately, Nina’s research aims to utilize these refined methods to conduct epidemiological research into the relationship between the external exposome and sleep patterns.
Nina helps coordinate the panel study (in which volunteers are followed for 2 weeks by GPS movement and collect data on several environmental pollutants). The data collected is used in Nina’s research project.
I hope to capture a more accurate picture of our daily environmental exposure and how it ultimately shapes our quality of sleep.
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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