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Roel Vermeulen is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and medicine, with a substantial emphasis on health, toxicology, mutagenesis, and public health related to environmental and occupational factors. Their research intersects multiple disciplines including molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cancer research.

The main research topics covered by Roel Vermeulen demonstrate a strong engagement with issues related to air quality and health, cognitive aging, and the impacts of climate change on health. The detailed topics are:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

The scientist's recent published papers include a range of influential works. Notable examples include:

  • The exposome and health: Where chemistry meets biology (2020, Science)
  • Environmental factors shaping the gut microbiome in a Dutch population (2022, Nature)
  • Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs (2020, Environment International)
  • Environmental risk factors of type 2 diabetes-an exposome approach (2021, Diabetologia)

Frequent collaborators include Lützen Portengen, Jelle Vlaanderen, Anke Huss, Gerard Hoek, and Hans Kromhout. These coauthors have appeared consistently across Roel Vermeulen's research output.

Roel Vermeulen regularly publishes in a number of academic venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their work. The key publication venues are:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology

The concentration of their work in environmental science is demonstrated by over 500 publications, with a significant subset also contributing to medicine. Within these fields, their research covers specialized domains such as toxicology, occupational health, molecular biology, respiratory medicine, and cancer research.

Best Publications

  • Hematotoxicity in Workers Exposed to Low Levels of Benzene

    Qing Lan;Luoping Zhang;Guilan Li;Roel Vermeulen

  • High-Resolution Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street View Cars: Exploiting Big Data

    Joshua S. Apte;Kyle P. Messier;Kyle P. Messier;Shahzad Gani;Michael Brauer

  • Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

    Sagi Abelson;Grace Collord;Grace Collord;Stanley W.K. Ng;Omer Weissbrod

  • The exposome and health: Where chemistry meets biology

    Roel Vermeulen;Emma L. Schymanski;Albert-László Barabási;Albert-László Barabási;Albert-László Barabási;Gary W. Miller

  • The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study: A Nested Case–Control Study of Lung Cancer and Diesel Exhaust

    Debra T. Silverman;Claudine M. Samanic;Jay H. Lubin;Aaron E. Blair

  • Considerations of circadian impact for defining 'shift work' in cancer studies: IARC working group report

    Richard G. Stevens;Johnni Hansen;Giovanni Costa;Erhard Haus

  • Health consequences of electric lighting practices in the modern world: A report on the National Toxicology Program's workshop on shift work at night, artificial light at night, and circadian disruption

    Ruth M. Lunn;David E. Blask;Andrew N. Coogan;Mariana G. Figueiro

  • Sleep characteristics across the lifespan in 1.1 million people from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Desana Kocevska;Thom S Lysen;Aafje Dotinga;M Elisabeth Koopman-Verhoeff

  • Chromosomal aberration frequency in lymphocytes predicts the risk of cancer: results from a pooled cohort study of 22 358 subjects in 11 countries

    Stefano Bonassi;Hannu Norppa;Marcello Ceppi;Ulf Strömberg

  • Biological dust exposure in the workplace is a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Melanie Matheson;Geza Benke;Joan Raven;Malcolm Sim

  • The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study: A Cohort Mortality Study With Emphasis on Lung Cancer

    Michael D. Attfield;Patricia L. Schleiff;Jay H. Lubin;Aaron Blair

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci in never-smoking women in Asia.

    Qing Lan;Chao A. Hsiung;Keitaro Matsuo;Yun Chul Hong

  • Meta-analysis on shift work and risks of specific obesity types.

    M. Sun;W. Feng;F. Wang;P. Li

  • STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology: Molecular Epidemiology STROBE-ME. An extension of the STROBE statement

    Valentina Gallo;Matthias Egger;Valerie McCormack;Peter B Farmer

  • Human population studies with cytogenetic biomarkers: review of the literature and future prospectives.

    Stefano Bonassi;Donatella Ugolini;Donatella Ugolini;Micheline Kirsch-Volders;Ulf Strömberg

  • A comparison of linear regression, regularization, and machine learning algorithms to develop Europe-wide spatial models of fine particles and nitrogen dioxide.

    Jie Chen;Kees de Hoogh;Kees de Hoogh;John Gulliver;Barbara Hoffmann

  • Dynamics of smoking-induced genome-wide methylation changes with time since smoking cessation

    Florence Guida;Torkjel M. Sandanger;Raphaële Castagné;Gianluca Campanella

  • Is Pesticide Use Related to Parkinson Disease? Some Clues to Heterogeneity in Study Results

    Marianne van der Mark;Maartje Brouwer;Hans Kromhout;Peter Nijssen

  • Assessing exposure and health consequences of chemicals in drinking water : Current state of knowledge and research needs

    Cristina M. Villanueva;Manolis Kogevinas;Sylvaine Cordier;Michael R. Templeton

  • The exposome in practice: Design of the EXPOsOMICS project.

    P. Vineis;M. Chadeau-Hyam;H. Gmuender;J. Gulliver

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Kromhout
Hans Kromhout Utrecht University
Qing Lan
Qing Lan National Institutes of Health
Nathaniel Rothman
Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health
Paolo Vineis
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London
Martyn T. Smith
Martyn T. Smith University of California, Berkeley
Anne Tjønneland
Anne Tjønneland University of Copenhagen
Rosario Tumino
Rosario Tumino Provincial Health Authority of Syracuse
Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Luoping Zhang
Luoping Zhang University of California, Berkeley
Elisabete Weiderpass
Elisabete Weiderpass International Agency For Research On Cancer

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