Zhendong Yuan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Heidelberg University, Germany. His research focuses on applying GeoAI, remote sensing, and GIS to environmental health, with an emphasis on high-resolution exposure assessment. His expertise includes developing AI-driven methods to map urban environmental factors such as air pollution, noise, heat, and greenness using street-view imagery, satellite data, and mobile sensing. His work aims to improve exposure assessment and support data-driven public health prevention and urban planning.
During his PhD in Exposome-NL at Utrecht University, Zhendong developed hyper-local air pollution models using mobile monitoring campaigns with sensors mounted on vehicles. His research combined mobile measurements, machine learning, GIS, and street-view imagery to produce high-resolution air pollution maps across multiple European cities. His work contributed to improving personal exposure assessment and advancing scalable methods for exposome research.
Exposome-NL enabled me to bridge GeoAI and environmental health to advance next-generation exposure assessment.
Zhendong Yuan, Jules Kerckhoffs, Pi-i Debby Lin, Esra Suel, Hao Li, Li Yi, Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Peter James, Kees de Hoogh, Gerard Hoek, Roel Vermeulen
Environmental Science & Technology (2025)
Zhendong Yuan, Youchen Shen, Gerard Hoek, Roel Vermeulen, Jules Kerckhoffs
Science of The Total Environment, Volume 922 (2024)
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
Z. Yuan, J. Kerckhoffs, G. Hoek, R. Vermeulen
Environ Sci Technol . 2022 Sep 19. doi: 10.1021
Zhendong Yuan, Jules Kerckhoffs, Youchen Shen, Kees de Hoogh, Gerard Hoek, Roel Vermeulen
Environmental Research Volume 228, 1 July 2023, 115836
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
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.
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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