Professor Vincent Jaddoe

Pediatric Epidemiology, Netherlands

Biography

Vincent Jaddoe is Professor of Pediatric Epidemiology at Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Adjuct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Boston, US. He is Principal Investigator of Generation R Research Core Facility at Erasmus MC, which includes the Generation R Study, a population-based prospective cohort studies among 14,000 pregnant women and their children from preconception onwards. He is Project coordinator of the Horizon2020 EU LifeCycle – Project (www.lifecycle-project.eu), in which data from pregnancy and child cohort studies are brought together into the open EU Child Cohort Network, which combines data from more than 350,000 parent and children. Dr. Jaddoe received various national and European prestigious personal grants (ZonMw Klinische Fellowships, NWO-VENI, NWO- VIDI, ERC Consolidator Grant). He has been appointed as lifelong member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) since 2020.