About Y. (Yuchan) Mou, PhD Student
Introduction
My research aims to understand how environmental exposures, including diet, air pollution, and chemicals, during susceptible periods shape child health using population-based cohorts. I am particularly interested in the physical growth and brain influences of complex interactions among a wide range of environmental factors.
My current research investigates how endocrine-disrupting chemicals affect adolescent brain development and behavior. I use advanced environmental mixture analysis methods to model the complex, high-dimensional exposure matrix, with a particular focus on thyroid and sex hormone disruption as potential mediating pathways.
Field(s) of expertise
- Nutritional epidemiology.
- Environmental epidemiology.
- Childhood obesity.
- Brain imaging.
Education and career
I received my PhD training in nutritional epidemiology at Erasmus MC, focusing on eating behaviors and dietary patterns in relation to childhood obesity and neurodevelopmental outcomes. In 2022, I conducted a postdoctoral research visit at the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, followed by a visit to ISGlobal in 2023.
Publications
My Groups
I am part of the ScanLab and the Generation R Study.
