To stimulate research innovation and novel ideas, the NEEDS team is multidisciplinary. Different perspectives through the lenses of geographers, psychologists, demographers and epidemiologists are going to unravel environment-health relations.

Marco Helbich is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. Marco is fascinated in addressing human-environment associations in cities using data-driven, computational models and geotechnologies. As principal investigator Marco leads the NEEDS project.

Hannah Roberts has a PhD in environmental psychology and works as postdoctoral researcher. Hannah investigates how exposures experienced along people’s daily mobility path might trigger depression.

Paulien Hagedoorn has a PhD in sociology, and a background in demography and geography. In the NEEDS project Paulien works as a postdoctoral researcher and explores how past environmental exposures along people’s residential history affect suicide later in life.