Roel Vermeulen is a Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and Exposome Science at Utrecht University. His scientific 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. Vermeulen is the director of the Utrecht Exposome Hub, PI of several large case-control and prospective occupational and general population studies and together with Jelle Vlaanderen the Project Coordinator of EXPANSE, a European research project that focuses on the urban exposome.
The Ethical Aspects of Exposome Research: A Systematic Review 
Horizon Europe grant for research into the best, personalised treatment for high blood pressure 
Preventive health: urgent and impactful for all researchers 
Researchers map air quality of each stage of La Vuelta 
Using large-scale population research to identify what shapes a healthy gut microbiome 
This summer, children research air quality with Utrecht scientists 
Professors cycle to elementary school students during Meet the Professor 
Air quality and COVID-19 
Project Air View shares hyperlocal map of air quality in Copenhagen 
NWO invests 3.2 million euros in exposome infrastructure 
‘The people in this neighbourhood live longer, healthier lives’ 
New job opportunities 
Predicting and preventing COVID-19 
Research into microplastics and nanoplastics and chemical substances 
We are looking for researchers to strenghten our team in Utrecht 
Research into the development of lung damage and chronic complaints after COVID-19 
Decoding the exposome, the biggest influencer on health 
Webinar Healthy Urban Spatial Planning on 29 October 
Blog: Let's clear the air 
Utrecht University starts platform for innovative solutions for a healthy urban living 
Predicting and preventing serious COVID-19 symptoms 
Researchers call for a new research approach Caspar W Safarlou, Karin R Jongsma, Roel Vermeulen, Annelien L Bredenoord
Exposome
Naama Karu, Alida Kindt, Adriaan J van Gammeren, Anton A M Ermens, Amy C Harms, Lutzen Portengen, Roel C H Vermeulen, Willem A Dik, Anton W Langerak, Vincent H J van der Velden, Thomas Hankemeier
Metabolites (volume 12, issue 7)
Naama Karu, Alida Kindt, Lieke Lamont, Adriaan J van Gammeren, Anton A M Ermens, Amy C Harms, Lutzen Portengen, Roel C H Vermeulen, Willem A Dik, Anton W Langerak, Vincent H J van der Velden, Thomas Hankemeier
Metabolites (volume 12, issue 7)
Femke Bouma, Gerard Hoek, Gerard H Koppelman, Judith M Vonk, Jules Kerckhoffs, Roel Vermeulen, Ulrike Gehring
Environmental Research, volume 219
Lai Wei, Mei-Po Kwan, Roel Vermeulen, Marco Helbich
Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
Tabea Sonnenschein, Simon Scheider, G Ardine de Wit, Cathryn C Tonne, Roel Vermeulen
Exposome, Volume 2
J. Kerckhoffs, J. Khan, G. Hoek, Z. Yuan, O. Hertel, M. Ketzel, S. Solvang Jensen, F. Al Hasan, K. Meliefste, R. Vermeulen
Environment International (170), December 2022
H. Ohanyan, L. Portengen, O. Kaplani, A. Huss, G. Hoek, J.W.J. Beulens, J. Lakerveld, R. Vermeulen
Environment International (170), December 2022
Z. Yuan, J. Kerckhoffs, G. Hoek, R. Vermeulen
Environ Sci Technol . 2022 Sep 19. doi: 10.1021
Youchen Shen, Kees de Hoogh, Oliver Schmitz, Nicholas Clinton, Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Jørgen Brandt, Jesper Christensen, Lise Frohn, Camilla Geels, Derek Karssenberg, Roel Vermeulen, Gerard Hoek
Environment International (168), October 2022
R. Gacesa, A. Kurilshikov, A. Vich Vila, T. Sinha, M.A.Y. Klaassen L.A. Bolte, S. Andreu-Sánchez, L. Chen, V. Collij, S. Hu, J.A.M. Dekens, V.C. Lenters, J.R. Björk, J.C. Swarte, M.A. Swertz, B.H. Jansen, J. Gelderloos-Arends, S. Jankipersadsing, M. Hofker, R.C.H. Vermeulen, S. Sanna, H.J.M. Harmsen, C. Wijmenga, J. Fu, A. Zhernakova, R.K. Weersma
Nature (2022)
Jules Kerckhoffs, Jibran Khan, Gerard Hoek, Zhendong Yuan, Thomas Ellermann, Ole Hertel, Matthias Ketzel, Steen Solvang Jensen, Kees Meliefste, Roel Vermeulen
Environment Science and Technology, March 2022
Haykanush Ohanyan, Lützen Portengren, Anke Huss, Eugenio Traini, Joline W.J. Beulens, Gerard Hoek, Jeroen Lakerveld, Roel Vermeulen
Environment International (158), Jan 2022
Pinho MGM, Lakerveld J, Harbers MC, Sluijs I, Vermeulen R, Huss A, Boer JMA, Verschuren WMM, Brug J, Beulens JWJ, Mackenbach JD.
European Journal of Nutrition. 60 (2021).
Safarlou CW, Bredenoord AL, Vermeulen R, Jongsma KR.
Am J Bioeth. 2021 Dec;21(12):73-75.
Beulens JWJ, Pinho MGM, Abreu TC, den Braver NR, Lam TM, Huss A, Vlaanderen J, Sonnenschein T, Siddiqui NZ, Yuan Z, Kerckhoffs J, Zhernakova A, Brandao Gois MF, Vermeulen RCH.
Diabetologia. 2021 Nov 18.
Utrecht University
Department Population Health Sciences
Institute for Risk Assesment Sciences (IRAS)
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Room 3.53
3584 CM Utrecht
Air quality Environmental Epidemiology Epidemiology Exposure Science Microplastics Molecular Epidemiology Pesticides Risk Assessment Sensors
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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