More than three-quarters of Europe’s population lives in cities. To ensure a sustainable and healthy urban future, we need an in-depth understanding of how physical and social environments influence people's health, health behaviours, and well-being. While much research has centered on residential neighborhoods as the primary context for environmental exposure, I move beyond these static notions. My work recognizes that people spend much of their daily lives outside the home. Through mobility-based health geographies, I investigate how dynamic environmental exposures, encountered along people’s daily mobility patterns and across residential moves over the life course, shape health, active mobility, and other health behaviours.

My research bridges the gap between spatial data science and human geography within the broader framework of planetary health. By integrating geocomputation, spatial data science, and artificial intelligence, I advance understanding of how urban environments interact with human health in a changing planet. This includes smartphone-based mobility tracking and deep learning models trained on millions of street-view images to assess environmental qualities. Through these approaches, I aim to reveal how everyday environmental experiences contribute to mental health disparities and urban sustainability. Teaching is also a vital part of my academic identity. I share my passion for research with students and find inspiration in their curiosity and creativity. Beyond the classroom, I aspire to contribute to evidence-based solutions that reduce environmental stressors and promote healthier, more equitable cities; efforts that align with the principles of planetary health and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

My research has been widely published in leading international journals across disciplines, reflecting strong scientific visibility and impact. It has been supported by several competitive grants, including from the European Research Council, and has attracted media attention. I serve as Associate Editor for Health & Place and the Journal of Transport and Land Use, and sit on the editorial boards of several journals (e.g., Annals of the American Association of Geographers). In addition, I am a member of the Exposome-NL research consortium and the ethics board, and I was appointed to the board of the intra-faculty priority research stream Planetary Health.