PhD candidate Environmental Epidemiology (1.0 FTE)

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We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative researcher to strengthen our research group. You will work in a multi-center study funded by the EU, the Citizen Science Project on Urban Environment and Health (CitieS-Health).

Citizens are increasingly concerned about the consequences of environmental pollution on their health and engage in data collection and activism efforts around environmental problems such as pollution from traffic, wood burning, noise and mobility. These concerns, along with the availability of affordable crowd-sensing and data processing technologies, that allow citizens to measure environmental and health parameters, make environmental health studies a perfect yet underexplored opportunity to develop citizen science projects. The aim of CitieS-Health is to find an effective model of citizen science projects at the maximum collaboration level in the field of environmental health. The project will develop participatory citizen science projects in five diverse European cities (Barcelona, Kaunas, Ljubljana, Amsterdam, Lucca) assessing urban air and noise pollution, wood burning, urban design and mobility. In the Netherlands, the project will primarily address wood burning and health issues. The project will involve measurements of exposure and health, to be developed with citizens and other stakeholders, including the Municipal Health Service of Amsterdam.

As a PhD candidate you will be responsible for developing the Dutch project in close collaboration with the international partners. You will publish the findings as papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. These papers will form the basis of your PhD thesis.

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