[closed] 5 vacant positions on how our environment influences our health

Our health is shaped by environmental factors that we humans are exposed to on a daily basis: what we eat, the air we breathe, our social interactions and lifestyle choices such as smoking and exercising. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Since most aspects of our environment are modifiable, this provides a huge potential for disease prevention.

Exposome

Leading scientist in Europe and the USA have formalised the sum of all these environmental drivers of health and diseases as the exposome. The exposome concept is trying to capture everything to understand which, how, in what quantities, and in what circumstances environmental drivers have an effect on our health. Interacting with the genome, it defines individual health at different stages throughout the life course, including foetal life.

In Utrecht we will appoint in total five young researchers with an interest in exposome research.

Healthy urban living

Within the research programme EXPANSE two PhD candidates will be appointed at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, with a focus on air pollution and complex data problems. 

EXPANSE is a five-year European research project that focuses on the urban exposome, the complex interplay between the built, social, physico-chemical, food, and lifestyle aspects of the urban environment. It involves 19 academic and non-academic partners located in 14 European countries and the USA. The project has received funding from the European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 874627 and is coordinated by Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.
 

  • PhD position on health effects of air pollution in relation to exposure assessment methodology - CLOSED
  • PhD position on modelling urban environmental risk factors - CLOSED

Personalised intervention for cardiovascular health

Within the Dutch consortium Exposome-NL three researchers will be appointed to strengthen the research group at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视.

In Exposome-NL internationally-renowned scientists from exposure science, environmental sciences, cardiovascular and metabolic health, clinical epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, geosciences, agent-based modelling, molecular biology, chemistry, and bio-informatics and biostatistics. Together the scientists from five different Dutch universities and medical centres focus on the exposome. The consortium will start with research into the causes of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Exposome-NL received funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), which in 2019 awarded Exposome-NL a subsidy of 17,4 million euro from its 鈥楪ravitation' programme.
 

  • PhD position on developing a framework for geo-computational exposure assessment models for urban environmental risk factors - CLOSED
  • PhD candidate on modelling urban environmental risk factors - CLOSED
  • Post-doctoral fellowship on causal inference in big-data health research - CLOSED