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Y. (Yuchan) Mou, PhD Student

Postdoctoral researcher

  • Department
  • Epidemiology
  • Focus area
  • Nutrition, Environmental health, Epidemiology, Obesity, Neurodevelopment
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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

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