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Porträt Kathrin Wolf
Helmholtz Munich | Christina Raaz

Dr. Kathrin Wolf

Senior Scientist, Research Group “Environmental Risks”
+49 89 3187-4563Email meBuilding/Room: 56/217

“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

Since 2015

Senior Scientist at Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Munich

2009

PhD in Human Biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

2005

Diplom Statistik (Master of Science Statistics) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

2001

Studies of Statistics and Biometrics at ENSAI (L’Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’analyse de l’information), Rennes, France

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