Senior Scientist, Research Group “Environmental Risks”
Dr. Kathrin Wolf
“My ambition is to characterize the multi-exposure environment and the changes of environmental conditions over time to investigate their effects on human health.”
Academic Career and Research Areas
Kathrin is an environmental epidemiologist and has a background in statistics. She did her PhD at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, in the research group "Epidemiology of Air Pollution Effects". She is currently the deputy head of the research group “Environmental Risks” at the Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Munich and is heading the Environmental Data Unit (EDU) of the of the German National Cohort (NAKO). Her main research interests include the impact of short- and long-term effects of air pollution, noise, meteorolgy and greenspace on cardiometabolic outcomes. She has a strong focus on GIS data and tools to estimate and visualize spatial concentrations of air pollutants, noise and temperature, including machine learning approaches. In addition, she is also interested in metadata standards for epidemiological cohort data. Since 2023, she is representing the health domain as member of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) Steering Board.
Fields of Work and Expertise
Environmental Epidemiology Exposure Modeling Machine Learning GIS Air Pollution Meteorology Noise Greenspace
Professional Background
Head of the Environmental Data Unit of the NAKO study
Deputy Head of Research Group “Environmental Risks” at the Institute of Epidemiology at Helmholtz Munich
Senior Scientist at Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Munich
PhD in Human Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
Diplom Statistik (Master of Science Statistics) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
Studies of Statistics and Biometrics at ENSAI (L’Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’analyse de l’information), Rennes, France
