Dr. Kathrin Wolf
Senior Scientist, Research Group “Environmental Risks”“My ambition is to characterize the multi-exposure environment and the changes of environmental conditions over time to investigate their effects on human health.”
“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. 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.
Fields of Work and Expertise
Environmental EpidemiologyExposure ModelingMachine LearningGISAir PollutionMeteorologyNoiseGreenspace
Professional Background
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
Highlight Publications
See all2021 Lancet Planet Health
2022 Lancet Planet Health
2016 Diabetes
2015 Epidemiology