Dr. J. (Jules) Kerckhoffs

Dr. J. (Jules) Kerckhoffs

Junior universitair docent
Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS)
06 39 516 439
j.kerckhoffs@uu.nl

Publicaties

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Goncalves Soares, A., Tilling, K., Makanvand, M., Kerckhoffs, J., Hansell, A. L., Timpson, N. J., & Elhakeem, A. (2025). Lifetime air pollution exposure from prenatal to 18 years and cardiovascular health in young adulthood: findings from a UK birth cohort. Environment International, 203. [DOI]
Shen, Y., Kerckhoffs, J., Stafoggia, M., Nobile, F., Cattani, G., Peters, A., Wolf, K., Cyrys, J., Kecorius, S., Tonne, C., Janc, M., Polanska, K., Eeftens, M., Imboden, M., Flückiger, B., Dimakopoulou, K., Katsouyanni, K., Samoli, E., de Hoogh, K., ... Vermeulen, R. (2025). Europe-Wide Spatial Models for Ultrafine Particles Based on Mobile Monitoring. Environmental Science & Technology, 59(50), 27033-27043. [DOI]
Yuan, Z., Kerckhoffs, J., Lin, P. I. D., Suel, E., Li, H., Yi, L., Jimenez, M. P., James, P., de Hoogh, K., Hoek, G., & Vermeulen, R. (2025). Advancing Air Pollution Exposure Models with Open-Vocabulary Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation of Street-View Images. Environmental Science & Technology, 59(39), 21237-21247. [DOI] [Portal]
Goncalves Soares, A., Tilling, K., Makanvand, M., Kerckhoffs, J., Hansell, A. L., Timpson, N. J., & Elhakeem, A. (2025). Lifetime air pollution exposure from prenatal to 18 years and cardiovascular health in young adulthood: findings from a UK birth cohort. Environment International, 203, 1-11. Article 109754. [DOI] [Portal]
He, Y., Lahti-Pulkkinen, M., Metsälä, J., Halonen, J. I., Miettunen, J., Kerckhoffs, J., Kantomaa, M., Kajantie, E., Sebert, S., & Pulakka, A. (2025). Residential exposure to traffic noise and incidence of depression and anxiety from childhood through adulthood: a Finnish register study. Environmental Research, 285(Pt.2), Article 122443. [DOI] [Portal]
Hoek, G., Bouma, F., Janssen, N., Wesseling, J., van Ratingen, S., Kerckhoffs, J., Gehring, U., Hendricx, W., Vermeulen, R., & de Hoogh, K. (2025). Comparison of Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure from Mobile and Routine Monitoring, Low-Cost Sensors, and Dispersion Models. Research report (Health Effects Institute), 226. https://www.healtheffects.org/publication/comparison-long-term-air-pollution-exposure-mobile-and-routine-monitoring-low-cost [Portal]
Kerckhoffs, J., Hofman, J., Khan, J., Adams, M. D., Blanco, M. N., deSouza, P., Durant, J. L., Faridi, S., Fruin, S., Hankey, S., Hassanvand, M. S., Hatzopoulou, M., Hoek, G., de Hoogh, K., Hudda, N., Kushwaha, M., Marshall, J. D., Minet, L., Patton, A. P., ... Amini, H. (2025). Mobile monitoring of air pollution − a position paper on use cases, good practices, challenges, and opportunities. Environment International, 202, Article 109582. [DOI] [Portal]
Bouma, F., Janssen, N. AH., Wesseling, J., van Ratingen, S., Kerckhoffs, J., Gehring, U., Hendricx, W., de Hoogh, K., Vermeulen, R., & Hoek, G. (2025). Comparison of air pollution mortality effect estimates using different long-term exposure assessment modelling methods. Environmental Research, 279(Part 2), Article 121832. [DOI] [Portal]
Sartelet, K., Kerckhoffs, J., Athanasopoulou, E., Lugon, L., Vasilescu, J., Zhong, J., Hoek, G., Joly, C., Park, S.-J., Talianu, C., van den Elshout, S., Dugay, F., Gerasopoulos, E., Ilie, A., Kim, Y., Nicolae, D., Harrison, R. M., & Petäjä, T. (2025). Air pollution mapping and variability over five European cities. Environment International, 199, Article 109474. [DOI] [Portal]
Bouma, F., Hoek, G., Koppelman, G. H., Vonk, J. M., Janssen, N. A., van Ratingen, S., Hendricx, W., Wesseling, J., Kerckhoffs, J., Vermeulen, R., de Hoogh, K., & Gehring, U. (2025). Comparison of air pollution exposure assessment methods and the association with children's respiratory health. Environment International, 198, Article 109407. [DOI] [Portal]
Fry, J. L., Ooms, P., Krol, M., Kerckhoffs, J., Vermeulen, R., Wesseling, J., & van den Elshout, S. (2025). Effect of street trees on local air pollutant concentrations (NO2, BC, UFP, PM2.5) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 5(3), 394-404. [DOI] [Portal]
Sonnenschein, T., Yuan, Z., Khan, J., Kerckhoffs, J., Vermeulen, R., & Scheider, S. (2025). Hybrid Cellular Automata-based Air Pollution Model for Traffic Scenario Microsimulations. Environmental Modelling and Software, 186, Article 106356. [DOI] [Portal]
Tian, T., Helbich, M., Yuan, Z., Vermeulen, R., Hoek, G., & Kerckhoffs, J. (2025). Assessing the role of spatial aggregation schemes with varying campaign durations of mobile measurements on land use regression models for estimating nitrogen dioxide. Environmental Pollution, 368, Article 125689. [DOI] [Portal]
Bergmann, M. L., Taghavi Shahri, S. M., Tayebi, S., Kerckhoffs, J., Cole-Hunter, T., Hoek, G., Lim, Y. H., Massling, A., Vermeulen, R., Loft, S., Andersen, Z. J., & Amini, H. (2025). Spatial and temporal variation of façade-level particle number concentrations using portable monitors in Copenhagen, Denmark. Environmental Pollution, 365, Article 125398. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vachon, J., Kerckhoffs, J., Buteau, S., & Smargiassi, A. (2024). Do Machine Learning Methods Improve Prediction of Ambient Air Pollutants with High Spatial Contrast? A Systematic Review. Environmental Research, 262(Pt 2), Article 119751. [DOI] [Portal]
Yuan, Z., Kerckhoffs, J., Li, H., Khan, J., Hoek, G., & Vermeulen, R. (2024). Hyperlocal Air Pollution Mapping: A Scalable Transfer Learning LUR Approach for Mobile Monitoring. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(32), 14372-14383. [DOI] [Portal]
Amini, H., Bergmann, M. L., Taghavi Shahri, S. M., Tayebi, S., Cole-Hunter, T., Kerckhoffs, J., Khan, J., Meliefste, K., Lim, Y.-H., Mortensen, L. H., Hertel, O., Reeh, R., Gaarde Nielsen, C., Loft, S., Vermeulen, R., Andersen, Z. J., & Schwartz, J. (2024). Harnessing AI to unmask Copenhagen's invisible air pollutants: A study on three ultrafine particle metrics. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 346, Article 123664. [DOI] [Repository]
Hewitt, B. C., Smit, L. A. M., Kersen, W. V., Wouters, I. M., Heederik, D. J. J., Kerckhoffs, J., Hoek, G., & Rooij, M. M. T. D. (2024). Residential exposure to microbial emissions from livestock farms: Implementation and evaluation of land use regression and random forest spatial models. Environmental Pollution, 346, 123590. Article 123590. [DOI] [Repository]
Yuan, Z., Shen, Y., Hoek, G., Vermeulen, R., & Kerckhoffs, J. (2024). LUR modeling of long-term average hourly concentrations of NO2 using hyperlocal mobile monitoring data. Science of the Total Environment, 922, Article 171251. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerckhoffs, J., Hoek, G., & Vermeulen, R. (2024). Mobile monitoring of air pollutants; performance evaluation of a mixed-model land use regression framework in relation to the number of drive days. Environmental Research, 240(Part 2), 1-5. Article 117457. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Yuan, Z., Kerckhoffs, J., Shen, Y., de Hoogh, K., Hoek, G., & Vermeulen, R. (2023). Integrating large-scale stationary and local mobile measurements to estimate hyperlocal long-term air pollution using transfer learning methods. Environmental Research, 228, Article 115836. [DOI] [Repository]
Bouma, F., Janssen, N. A., Wesseling, J., van Ratingen, S., Strak, M., Kerckhoffs, J., Gehring, U., Hendricx, W., de Hoogh, K., Vermeulen, R., & Hoek, G. (2023). Long-term exposure to ultrafine particles and natural and cause-specific mortality. Environment international, 175, Article 107960. [DOI] [Repository]
Bouma, F., Hoek, G., Koppelman, G. H., Vonk, J. M., Kerckhoffs, J., Vermeulen, R., & Gehring, U. (2023). Exposure to ambient ultrafine particles and allergic sensitization in children up to 16 years. Environmental Research, 219, Article 115102. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Yuan, Z., Kerckhoffs, J., Hoek, G., & Vermeulen, R. (2022). A Knowledge Transfer Approach to Map Long-Term Concentrations of Hyperlocal Air Pollution from Short-Term Mobile Measurements. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(19), 13820–13828. [DOI] [Repository]
Yu, Z., Koppelman, G. H., Boer, J. M. A., Hoek, G., Kerckhoffs, J., Vonk, J. M., Vermeulen, R., & Gehring, U. (2022). Ambient ultrafine particles and asthma onset until age 20: The PIAMA birth cohort. Environmental Research, 214(Part 1), Article 113770. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerckhoffs, J., Khan, J., Hoek, G., Yuan, Z., Hertel, O., Ketzel, M., Jensen, S. S., Al Hasan, F., Meliefste, K., & Vermeulen, R. (2022). Hyperlocal variation of nitrogen dioxide, black carbon, and ultrafine particles measured with Google Street View cars in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Environment International, 170, 1-11. Article 107575. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerckhoffs, J., Khan, J., Hoek, G., Yuan, Z., Ellermann, T., Hertel, O., Ketzel, M., Jensen, S. S., Meliefste, K., & Vermeulen, R. (2022). Mixed-Effects Modeling Framework for Amsterdam and Copenhagen for Outdoor NO2 Concentrations Using Measurements Sampled with Google Street View Cars. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(11), 7174-7184. [DOI] [Repository]
Ronkainen, J., Nedelec, R., Atehortua, A., Balkhiyarova, Z., Cascarano, A., Ngoc Dang, V., Elhakeem, A., van Enckevort, E., Goncalves Soares, A., Haakma, S., Halonen, M., Heil, K. F., Heiskala, A., Hyde, E., Jacquemin, B., Keikkala, E., Kerckhoffs, J., Klåvus, A., Kopinska, J. A., ... Sebert, S. (2022). LongITools: Dynamic longitudinal exposome trajectories in cardiovascular and metabolic noncommunicable diseases. Environmental Epidemiology, 6(1), 1-12. Article e184. [DOI] [Repository]
Beulens, J. W. J., Pinho, M. G. M., Abreu, T. C., den Braver, N. R., Lam, T. M., Huss, A., Vlaanderen, J., Sonnenschein, T., Siddiqui, N. Z., Yuan, Z., Kerckhoffs, J., Zhernakova, A., Brandao Gois, M. F., & Vermeulen, R. C. H. (2022). Environmental risk factors of type 2 diabetes-an exposome approach. Diabetologia, 65(2), 263-274. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kerckhoffs, J. (2021). Mapping Air Pollution with Mobile Monitoring. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University. [DOI] [Repository]
Yu, Z., Koppelman, G. H., Hoek, G., Kerckhoffs, J., Vonk, J. M., Vermeulen, R., & Gehring, U. (2021). Ultrafine particles, particle components and lung function at age 16 years: The PIAMA birth cohort study. Environment International, 157, 1-8. Article 106792. [DOI] [Repository]
Kerckhoffs, J., Hoek, G., Gehring, U., & Vermeulen, R. (2021). Modelling nationwide spatial variation of ultrafine particles based on mobile monitoring. Environment International, 154, Article 106569. [DOI] [Repository]
Beek, E. V. D., Kerckhoffs, J., Hoek, G., Sterk, G., Meliefste, K., Gehring, U., & Vermeulen, R. (2021). Spatial and Spatiotemporal Variability of Regional Background Ultrafine Particle Concentrations in the Netherlands. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(2), 1067-1075. [DOI] [Repository]

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kerckhoffs, J., Hoek, G., Portengen, L., Brunekreef, B., & Vermeulen, R. C. H. (2019). Performance of Prediction Algorithms for Modeling Outdoor Air Pollution Spatial Surfaces. Environmental Science and Technology, 53(3), 1413-1421. [DOI] [Repository]

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Chen, J., Hoogh, K. D., Strak, M., Kerckhoffs, J., Vermeulen, R., Brunekreef, B., & Hoek, G. (2018). OP III – 4 Exposure assessment models for no2 and pm2.5 in the elapse study: a comparison of supervised linear regression and machine learning approaches. [DOI]
Downward, G. S., van Nunen, E. J. H. M., Kerckhoffs, J., Vineis, P., Brunekreef, B., Boer, J. M. A., Messier, K. P., Roy, A., Verschuren, W. M. M., van der Schouw, Y. T., Sluijs, I., Gulliver, J., Hoek, G., & Vermeulen, R. (2018). Long-Term Exposure to Ultrafine Particles and Incidence of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease in a Prospective Study of a Dutch Cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives, 126(12), Article 127007. [DOI] [Repository]
Messier, K. P., Chambliss, S. E., Gani, S., Alvarez, R., Brauer, M., Choi, J. J., Hamburg, S. P., Kerckhoffs, J., Lafranchi, B., Lunden, M. M., Marshall, J. D., Portier, C. J., Roy, A., Szpiro, A. A., Vermeulen, R. C. H., & Apte, J. S. (2018). Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression. Environmental Science and Technology, 52(21), 12563-12572. [DOI] [Repository]

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kerckhoffs, J., Hoek, G., Vlaanderen, J., van Nunen, E., Messier, K. P., Brunekreef, B., Gulliver, J., & Vermeulen, R. (2017). Robustness of intra urban land-use regression models for ultrafine particles and black carbon based on mobile monitoring. Environmental Research, 159, 500-508. [DOI] [Repository]

2016

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kerckhoffs, J., Hoek, G., Messier, K. P., Brunekreef, B., Meliefste, K., Klompmaker, J. O., & Vermeulen, R. (2016). Comparison of Ultrafine Particle and Black Carbon Concentration Predictions from a Mobile and Short-Term Stationary Land-Use Regression Model. Environmental Science and Technology, 50(23), 12894-12902. [DOI] [Repository]

2015

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kerckhoffs, J., Wang, M., Meliefste, K., Malmqvist, E., Fischer, P., Janssen, N. A. H., Beelen, R., & Hoek, G. (2015). A national fine spatial scale land-use regression model for ozone. Environmental Research, 140, 440-448. [DOI] [Repository]