Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen

Professor Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen PhD is director of the Urban Planning, Environment and Health initiative and the Climate, Air pollution, Nature and Urban Health research program at ISGlobal Barcelona, Spain.

He is a world leading expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health impact assessment with a strong focus and interest on healthy urban living. He has edited 8 books on Environmental Exposure assessment and Epidemiology, and urban and transport planning and health, co-authored 39 book chapters, and has co-authored more than 600 papers published in peer reviewed journals. In 2018, he was awarded the ISEE John Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Epidemiology. Since 2018 he is among the Clarivate 1% Highly cited scientists in the world. In 2021 he was ranked as the number 1 scientist in Urban health.

He leads the bi-annual Urban Transitions conference and he is Editor in Chief of Environment International. In 2020 and 2021 he was the President of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology. He led 5 large EC funded consortia, including currently UBDPolicy, and is involved many more EC funded research consortia as WP or task leader. He leads the European Urban Burden of Disease project (https://www.isglobal.org/en/-/european-burden-of-disease-project opens in new tab/window) and related EC Horizon project UBDPolicy (https://ubdpolicy.eu/ opens in new tab/window)