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Susana Santos received her Bachelor of Nutrition Science and Master in Epidemiology degrees from the University of Porto, Portugal (2009 and 2012, respectively). She worked as an intern researcher at the Centre for Food Policy, City University London (2009) and as a researcher with a scientific initiation grant and subsequently an individual doctoral grant at the Institute of Public Health, University of Porto (2010-2014). From 2014 to 2022, she conducted her research at The Generation R Study Group and Department of Pediatrics in Erasmus MC-Sophia Children´s Hospital, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She completed a Joint Doctorate between the University of Porto and Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2017 with a research project focused on the metabolic health related consequences of maternal and infant adiposity. Her line of research has been mainly focused on the role of early environmental exposures (social, lifestyle, chemical, and urban exposures) on body fat and cardiometabolic health in children. She developed a special interest in the integration of the exposome concept in this field. She worked 6 months at ISGlobal, Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain (2018/19) to develop further in environmental epidemiology and exposome analyses. She has been conducting her research and also having coordinating tasks within EU H2020 funded international collaborations and consortia (Maternal Obesity and Childhood Outcomes (MOCO)-LifeCycle Project, EUCAN-Connect, ATHLETE and LongITools). She is currently working as a researcher at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (ISPUP), where she coordinates the Research Lab Perinatal Determinants of Health and the large population-based birth cohort Generation XXI, and is the Principal Investigator (PI) representing ISPUP in the ATHLETE project. Her last notable achievement was being awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, for the ongoing URBANE project, that assesses the influence of the urban environment during pregnancy and childhood on the risk of multimorbidity in adolescence. She has also been highly involved in teaching activities and supervision of students.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Susana Moreira da Silva Santos
Date of birth
1986/10/14
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Santos, Susana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5710-BFE0-C4C2
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0613-3181
AuthenticusID
R-00K-7FC
Scopus Author Id
57197974153

Email addresses

  • susana.m.santos@ispup.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto. Rua das Taipas nº 135 , 4050-600, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Dutch Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017
Concluded
 Joint doctorate in Public Health (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Erasmus MC, Netherlands
2012
Concluded
 Master in Epidemiology (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2009
Concluded
 Bachelor of Nutrition Science (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/03 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2019/04 - 2022/02 Postdoc (Research) Erasmus MC, Netherlands
2018/10 - 2019/03 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain
2017/11 - 2018/09 Postdoc (Research) Erasmus MC, Netherlands
2014 - 2017 Researcher (Research) Erasmus MC, Netherlands
2010 - 2014 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2009/01 - 2009/06 Research Trainee (Research) City University of London, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024 - Current Coordinator of the Research Lab Perinatal Determinants of Health Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação em Epidemiologia, Portugal
2024 - Current Team member of the Guarujá birth cohort (São Paulo, Brazil) Universidade do Oeste Paulista Faculdade de Medicina, Brazil
2022 - Current Executive Coordinator of Generation XXI (G21) birth cohort Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020 - Current Advancing Tools for Human Early Lifecourse Exposome Research and Translation (ATHLETE; € 11 998 333,75)
874583
Researcher and Principal Investigator for ISPUP
European Union
2025/07/23 - 2028/07/21 EndPFAS: In-utero exposure to PFAS and cardiometabolic, liver and reproductive health from early childhood to young adulthood (249 480,00€)
COMPETE2030-FEDER-00914600
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Unidade de Investigação em Epidemiologia, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Laboratório Associado para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/10/21 - 2023/11/02 Visiting professor - scholarship in Brazil (2500€)
88887.888687/2023-00
 Brazilian Federal Foundation for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education - CAPES
2020 - 2023 Dynamic longitudinal exposome trajectories in cardiovascular and metabolic noncommunicable diseases (LongITools; € 11 997 448,75)
874739
Researcher
European Union
2019 - 2023 A federated FAIR platform enabling large-scale analysis of high-value cohort data connecting Europe and Canada in personalized health (EUCAN-Connect; € 6 717 953,75)
824989
Researcher
European Union
2015 - 2022 Maternal Obesity and Childhood Outcomes (MOCO-LifeCycle Project; € 10 414 945,84)
733206
Researcher
European Union
2018/10 - 2019/03 Early-life exposures and childhood adiposity and cardiometabolic health: an innovative exposome approach
733206
International mobility fellowship (24.000€)
European Union
2012 - 2016 Maternal and Infant Adiposity: Metabolic Health Related Consequences (Individual doctoral grant; 47.000€)
SFRH/BD/81123/2011
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012 - 2015 Understanding the dynamics of childhood body fat - the mediating effect of dietary patterns and eating behaviors (Co-investigator; 197,670.00€)
PTDC/SAU-EPI/121532/2010
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2010 - 2012 Peripheral body fat, lifestyles and adipokines (Individual scientific initiation grant; 18.000€)
PTDC/SAU-ESA/108315/2008
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/09 - Current Early-life URBAN environmental exposures and childhood multimorbidity: An Exposome-wide approach (URBANE; MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship; 172,618.56€)
101109136
 European Union´s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Gaillard, R.; Santos, Susana; Duijts, L.; Felix, J.F.; Jaddoe, V.W.V.. "Influence of maternal obesity during pregnancy on childhood health outcomes". In Fetal and Early Postnatal Programming and its Influence on Adult Health, 237-253. CRC Press, 2017.
Conference abstract
  1. Santos, Susana; Bruns, Cara Victoria; Pereira, Rita; Araújo, B.; Ribeiro, Ana Isabel; Barros, Henrique. "Green and blue spaces residential exposure over childhood and multimorbidity in adolescence". Paper presented in European Journal of Public Health, 2024.
  2. Santos, Susana; Oliveira, Mafalda ; Pereira, Rita; Oliveira, Andreia; Barros, Henrique; Gaio, Rita. "Prediction of overweight/obesity risk in adolescence using static and dynamic multi-exposure models". Paper presented in European Journal of Public Health, 2024.
  3. Patro Golab, Bernadeta; Voerman, Ellis; Santos, Susana; Jaddoe, Vincent. "Infant subcutaneous fat and abdominal, pericardial and liver fat assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the age of 10 years". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  4. Geurtsen, Madelon L; Santos, Susana; Duijts, Liesbeth; Felix, Janine F; Jaddoe, Vincent. "Insulin resistance and liver fat assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in children". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  5. Vogelezang, Suzanne; Santos, Susana; Van Der Lugt, A.; Felix, Janine F; Jaddoe, Vincent. "Infant breastfeeding and childhood general, abdominal, liver and pericardial fat measures assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. The Generation R Study". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  6. Monnereau, Claire; Santos, Susana; Van Der Lugt, A.; Jaddoe, Vincent; Felix, Janine F. "Influence of known genetic variants associated with adiposity on childhood abdominal, liver and pericardial fat assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  7. Gaillard, Romy; Santos, Susana; Duijts, Liesbeth; Felix, Janine F; Jaddoe, Vincent. "Influence of maternal obesity during pregnancy on offspring cardio-metabolic health and disease". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  8. Patro Golab, Bernadeta; on behalf of the MOCO Collaboration. "The role of maternal obesity in the associations of pregnancy complications with childhood overweight and obesity. Individual participant data meta-analysis". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  9. Voerman, Ellis; on behalf of the MOCO Collaboration. "Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and the risk of childhood overweight: An individual participant data meta-analysis". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  10. Philips, Elise M.; on behalf of the MOCO Collaboration. "Parental smoking and risks of birth complications, childhood overweight and obesity: individual participant data meta-analysis of 200,000 singleton births". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  11. Philips, Elise M.; Jaddoe, Vincent; Asimakopoulos, Alexandros G.; Kannan, Kurunthachalam; Steegers, Eric A. P.; Santos, Susana; Trasande, Leonardo. "Non-A bisphenol exposures widely prevalent in pregnant women in a population-based cohort in the Netherlands, 2004-5". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  12. Santos, Susana; on behalf of the MOCO Collaboration. "Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America and Oceania". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2017.
  13. Afonso, Lisa; Santos, Susana; Severo, Milton; Lopes, Carla; Oliveira, Andreia. "The effect of parental child-feeding practices at 4 years old on child¿s eating behaviours 3 years later.". Paper presented in Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição, 2016.
    Published
  14. Santos, Susana; Gaillard, Romy; Oliveira, Andreia; Barros, Henrique; Abrahamse-Berkeveld, M.; van der Beek, E.M.; Hofman, A.; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.. "Associations of infant subcutaneous fat mass with total and abdominal fat mass at scool-age. The Generation R Study.". Paper presented in J Dev Orig Health Dis, 2015.
    Published
  15. Afonso, Lisa; Lopes, Carla; Severo, Milton; Santos, Susana; Real, Helena; Oliveira, Andreia. "Bidirectional association between parental child-feeding practices and body mass index at 4 and 7 year-old.". Paper presented in Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição, 2015.
    Published
  16. Santos, Susana. "Nuts and cardiometabolic health [in Portuguese]". Paper presented in Acta Portuguesa de Nutrição, 2015.
  17. Santos, Susana; Lopes, Carla; Oliveira, Andreia. "Effect of n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids intake at 4 years old on body fat patterns at 7 years old in the Generation XXI birth cohort.". Paper presented in International Journal of Community Nutrition, 2014.
    Published
  18. Santos, Susana; Oliveira, Andreia; Pinho, C.; Casal, Susana; Lopes, Carla. "Fatty acids derived from a food frequency questionnaire and measured in erythrocyte-membrane in relation to adiponectin and leptin concentrations.". Paper presented in Nutricias, 2013.
    Published
  19. Simões, Mário; Severo, Milton; Oliveira, Andreia; Santos, Susana; Lopes, Carla. "Effect of peripheral body fat on adipokines and C-reactive protein, taking into account different models of body fat prediction.". Paper presented in European Journal Public Health, 2013.
  20. Santos, Susana; Severo, Milton; Santos, Ana Cristina ; Lopes, Carla; Barros, Henrique; Oliveira, Andreia. "Identification of clusters of body composition and time changes from 4 to 7 years in children from Generation XXI". Paper presented in Eur J Epidemiol, 2013.
  21. Santos, Susana; Oliveira, Andreia; Lopes, Carla. "Adherence to a healthy dietary pattern and body fat distribution evaluated by different methods (DXA and anthropometry) in Portuguese adults [in Portuguese]". Paper presented in Nutrícias, 2012.
  22. Santos, Susana; Oliveira, Andreia; Casal, Susana; Lopes, Carla. "Saturated fatty acids intake in relation to C-reactive protein, adiponectin and leptin: a population-based study". Paper presented in Eur J Epidemiol, 2012.
  23. Santos, Susana; Oliveira, Andreia; Lopes, Carla. "Effects of saturated fatty acids on circulating markers of inflammation and adipokines: a systematic review". Paper presented in Alimentação Humana, 2012.
  24. Santos, Susana; Oliveira, Andreia; Lopes, Carla. "Effect of macronutrients on central and peripheral body fat [in Portuguese: Efeito dos macronutrientes na gordura corporal central e periférica].". Paper presented in Revista Portuguesa de Cirurgia, 2011.
    Published
  25. Santos, Susana; Vilela, Sofia; Padrão, Patrícia; Caraher, Martin. "Food habits and food choice motives among university students in London: the influence of gender and nationality". Paper presented in Public Health Nutr, 2010.
  26. Vilela, Sofia; Santos, Susana; Padrão, Patrícia; Caraher, Martin. "Effects of short vs. long migration on eating patterns – the case of university students in London [in Portuguese]". Paper presented in Alimentação Humana, 2009.
Conference poster
  1. Oliveira, M; Pereira, R; Oliveira, A; Barros, H; Gaio, R; Santos, Susana. "Prediction of overweight/obesity risk in adolescence using static and dynamic multi-exposure models (poster with presentation - presenter)". Paper presented in 17th European Public Health Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2024.
  2. Valente B; Nogueira B; Pereira R; Ribeiro AI; Barros H; Santos, Susana. "Green and blue spaces residential exposure over childhood and cardiometabolic health outcomes: The Generation XXI birth cohort.". Paper presented in 30th European Congress on Obesity. Dublin, Ireland, 2023.
  3. Santos, Susana; Fossati S; Warembourg C; Jaddoe VWV; Vrijheid M. "Prenatal exposome and childhood general, visceral and liver fat assessed by magnetic resonance imaging". Paper presented in 31st Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2019.
  4. Santos, Susana; Monnereau C; Felix J; Duijts L; Gaillard R; Jaddoe VWV. "Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and childhood abdominal, pericardial and liver fat assessed by magnetic resonance imaging". Paper presented in The 3rd Paula Rantakallio Symposium on Birth Cohorts and Longitudinal Studies. Oulu, Finland, 2018.
  5. Santos, Susana; Gaillard R; Oliveira A; Barros H; Abrahamse-Berkeveld M; van der Beek EM; Hofman A; Jaddoe VWV. "Associations of infant subcutaneous fat mass with total and abdominal fat mass at scool-age. The Generation R Study (poster with presentation - presenter)". Paper presented in 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Cape Town, South Africa, 2015.
  6. Santos, Susana; Severo M; Santos AC; Lopes C; Barros H; Oliveira A. "Identification of clusters of body composition and time changes from 4 to 7 years in children from Generation XXI". Paper presented in European Congress of Epidemiology. Aarhus, Denmark, 2013.
  7. Santos, Susana; Oliveira A; Casal S; Lopes C. "Saturated fatty acids intake in relation to C-reactive protein, adiponectin and leptin: a population-based study". Paper presented in European Congress of Epidemiology. Porto, Portugal, 2012.
  8. Santos, Susana; Oliveira A; Lopes C. "Effects of saturated fatty acids on circulating markers of inflammation and adipokines: a systematic review". Paper presented in IX Congress of Portuguese Society of Nutrition and Food Sciences. Porto, Portugal, 2012.
  9. Santos, Susana; Vilela, S; Padrão, P; Caraher, M. "Food habits and food choice motives among university students in London: the influence of gender and nationality". Paper presented in II World Congress of Public Health Nutrition & I Latinamerican Congress of Community Nutrition. Porto, Portugal, 2010.
Journal article
  1. Scheepers, Lieke E.J.M.; Binter, Anne-Claire; Santos, Susana; Petricola, Sami; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.; Guxens, Mònica; Johnston, Fay H.. "Air pollution and bone health outcomes: Periods of susceptibility from pregnancy to childhood". Environment International 203 (2025): 109739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109739.
    10.1016/j.envint.2025.109739
  2. Quezada-Pinedo, Hugo G.; Jaddoe, Vincent; Santos, Susana. "Letter to Editor - Reply - Maternal hemoglobin and iron status in early pregnancy and childhood cardiac outcomes". Clinical Nutrition 51 (2025): 386-387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2025.05.012.
    10.1016/j.clnu.2025.05.012
  3. Mou, Yuchan; Santos, Susana; Lara, Macarena; Derks, Ivonne P. M.; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Gaillard, Romy; Felix, Janine F.; et al. "Identifying Key Predictors of Mid-Childhood Obesity in a Population-Based Cohort Study: An Evidence Synthesis and Predictive Modeling Study". Obesity Reviews 26 11 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13958.
    10.1111/obr.13958
  4. Warkentin, Sarah; Fossati, Serena; Marquez, Sandra; Andersen, Anne-Marie Nybo; Andrusaityte, Sandra; Avraam, Demetris; Ballester, Ferran; et al. "Ambient air pollution and childhood obesity from infancy to late childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 10 European birth cohorts". Environment International 200 (2025): 109527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109527.
    10.1016/j.envint.2025.109527
  5. Sol, Chalana M.; Delgado, Geneviève; Kannan, Kurunthachalam; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.; Trasande, Leonardo; Santos, Susana. "Fetal exposure to phthalates and body mass index from infancy to adolescence. The Generation R study". Environmental Research 274 (2025): 121253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.121253.
    10.1016/j.envres.2025.121253
  6. Valente, Berta; Araújo, Berna; Pereira, Rita; Isabel Ribeiro, Ana; Barros, Henrique; Santos, Susana. "Residential exposure to green and blue spaces over childhood and cardiometabolic health outcomes: The generation XXI birth cohort". Environment International 198 (2025): 109452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109452.
    10.1016/j.envint.2025.109452
  7. Quezada-Pinedo, Hugo G.; Jaddoe, Vincent; Gaillard, Romy; Duijts, Liesbeth; van Rijn, Bas; Reiss, Irwin K.M.; Vermeulen, Marijn J.; Santos, Susana. "Maternal hemoglobin and iron status in early pregnancy and childhood cardiac outcomes". Clinical Nutrition 43 9 (2024): 1997-2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2024.07.009.
    10.1016/j.clnu.2024.07.009
  8. Liu, Mingwei; Vaartjes, Ilonca; Hoek, Gerard; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.; Santos, Susana; Schreuder, Anton; Vrijkotte, Tanja G.M.; Grobbee, Diederick E.; Timmermans, Erik J.. "Longitudinal associations of air pollution and green space with cardiometabolic risk factor clustering among children in the Netherlands". Environment International 190 (2024): 108852. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108852.
    10.1016/j.envint.2024.108852
  9. Fernandes, Amanda; Avraam, Demetris; Cadman, Tim; Dadvand, Payam; Guxens, Mònica; Binter, Anne-Claire; Pinot de Moira, Angela; et al. "Green spaces and respiratory, cardiometabolic, and neurodevelopmental outcomes: An individual-participant data meta-analysis of >35.000 European children". Environment International 190 (2024): 108853. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108853.
    10.1016/j.envint.2024.108853
  10. Essers, Esmée; Granés, Laura; Delaney, Scott; Ballester, Joan; Santos, Susana; Petricola, Sami; Yang, Tiffany C; et al. "Ambient air temperature exposure and foetal size and growth in three European birth cohorts". Environment International 186 (2024): 108619. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108619.
    10.1016/j.envint.2024.108619
  11. Abellan, Alicia; Warembourg, Charline; Mensink-Bout, Sara M.; Ambros, Albert; de Castro, Montserrat; Fossati, Serena; Guxens, Mònica; et al. "Urban environment during pregnancy and lung function, wheezing, and asthma in school-age children. The generation R study". Environmental Pollution 344 (2024): 123345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123345.
    10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123345
  12. Gonçalves Soares, A.; Santos, S.; Seyve, E. ; Nedelec, R.; Puhakka, S.; Eloranta, AM.; Mikkonen, S.; et al. "Prenatal Urban Environment and Blood Pressure Trajectories From Childhood to Early Adulthood". JACC Journals (2024): https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacadv.2023.100808.
  13. Wu, Tong; Santos, Susana; Quezada-Pinedo, Hugo G; Vernooij, Meike W.; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.; Klein, Stefan; Duijts, Liesbeth; Oei, Edwin H.G.. "Body composition and respiratory outcomes in children: a population-based prospective cohort study". Thorax (2024): thorax-2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2023-220014.
    10.1136/thorax-2023-220014
  14. Zhou, Shuang; Raat, Hein; You, Yueyue; Santos, Susana; van Grieken, Amy; Wang, Haijun; Yang-Huang, Junwen. "Change in neighborhood socioeconomic status and childhood weight status and body composition from birth to adolescence". International Journal of Obesity (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41366-023-01454-7.
    10.1038/s41366-023-01454-7
  15. de Groot, Jasmin; Santos, Susana; Geurtsen, Madelon L.; Felix, Janine F.; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.. "Risk factors and cardio-metabolic outcomes associated with metabolic-associated fatty liver disease in childhood". eClinicalMedicine 65 (2023): 102248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102248.
    10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102248
  16. Cadman, Tim; Elhakeem, Ahmed; Vinther, Johan Lerbech; Avraam, Demetris; Carrasco, Paula; Calas, Lucinda; Cardo, Marloes; et al. "Associations of Maternal Educational Level, Proximity to Greenspace During Pregnancy, and Gestational Diabetes With Body Mass Index From Infancy to Early Adulthood: A Proof-of-Concept Federated Analysis in 18 Birth Cohorts". American Journal of Epidemiology (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwad206.
    10.1093/aje/kwad206
  17. Bravo, Patricia; Cárcamo, Rodrigo; Santos, Susana; Ringoot, Ank; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Hillegers, Manon H.J.; Jansen, Pauline W.. "Maternal sensitivity in early childhood and body mass index in adolescence: A population-based study on the role of self-regulation as a mediator". Appetite 182 (2023): 106418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.106418.
    10.1016/j.appet.2022.106418
  18. Vinther, Johan L.; Cadman, Tim; Avraam, Demetris; Ekstrøm, Claus T.; I. A. Sørensen, Thorkild; Elhakeem, Ahmed; Santos, Ana C.; et al. "Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: An individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies". PLOS Medicine 20 1 (2023): e1004036. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004036.
    10.1371/journal.pmed.1004036
  19. Marques, Irene; Santos, Susana; Monasso, Giulietta S.; Fossati, Serena; Vrijheid, Martine; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Felix, Janine F.. "Associations of green and blue space exposure in pregnancy with epigenetic gestational age acceleration". Epigenetics 18 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2023.2165321.
    10.1080/15592294.2023.2165321
  20. Quezada-Pinedo, Hugo G.; Jaddoe, Vincent; Duijts, Liesbeth; Muka, Taulant; Vermeulen, Marijn J.; Reiss, Irwin K.M.; Santos, Susana. "Maternal iron status in early pregnancy and childhood body fat measures and cardiometabolic risk factors: A population-based prospective cohort". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 117 1 (2023): 191-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.10.006.
    10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.10.006
  21. Torres Toda, Maria; Avraam, Demetris; James Cadman, Timothy; Fossati, Serena; de Castro, Montserrat; Dedele, Audrius; Donovan, Geoffrey; et al. "Exposure to natural environments during pregnancy and birth outcomes in 11 European birth cohorts". Environment International 170 (2022): 107648. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107648.
    10.1016/j.envint.2022.107648
  22. Sol, Chalana M; Santos, S.; Kannan, K.; Jaddoe, V. W.; Trasande, L.. "Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Bisphenols and Childhood Kidney Function: A Prospective Cohort Study". Exposure and Health (2022): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12403-022-00517-w.
  23. Sol, Chalana M.; Gaylord, Abigail; Santos, Susana; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Felix, Janine F.; Trasande, Leonardo. "Fetal exposure to phthalates and bisphenols and DNA methylation at birth: the Generation R Study". Clinical Epigenetics 14 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13148-022-01345-0.
    10.1186/s13148-022-01345-0
  24. Silva, Carolina C. V.; Santos, Susana; Muetzel, Ryan L.; Vernooij, Meike W.; van Rijn, Bas B.; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; El Marroun, Hanan. "Maternal Cardiovascular Health in Early Pregnancy and Childhood Brain Structure". Journal of the American Heart Association 11 19 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/jaha.122.026133.
    10.1161/jaha.122.026133
  25. Blaauwendraad, Sophia M.; Jaddoe, Vincent WV.; Santos, Susana; Kannan, Kurunthachalam; Dohle, Gert R.; Trasande, Leonardo; Gaillard, Romy. "Associations of maternal urinary bisphenol and phthalate concentrations with offspring reproductive development". Environmental Pollution 309 (2022): 119745. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119745.
    10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119745
  26. Jasmin M. de Groot; Madelon L. Geurtsen; Susana Santos; Vincent W. V. Jaddoe. "Ethnic disparities in liver fat accumulation in school-aged children". Obesity (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23478.
    10.1002/oby.23478
  27. Gonçalves, Romy; Wiertsema, Clarissa J.; Silva, Carolina C. V.; Monasso, Giulietta S.; Gaillard, Romy; Steegers, Eric A. P.; Santos, Susana; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.. "Associations of Fetal and Infant Growth Patterns With Early Markers of Arterial Health in School-Aged Children". JAMA Network Open 5 6 (2022): e2219225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.19225.
    10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.19225
  28. Harris, Holly A.; Bowling, April; Santos, Susana; Greaves-Lord, Kirstin; Jansen, Pauline W.. "Child ADHD and autistic traits, eating behaviours and weight: A population-based study". Pediatric Obesity 17 11 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12951.
    10.1111/ijpo.12951
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  90. Santos, Susana; Gaillard, Romy; Oliveira, Andreia; Barros, Henrique; Abrahamse-Berkeveld, Marieke; van der Beek, Eline M.; Hofman, Albert; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.. "Associations of Infant Subcutaneous Fat Mass with Total and Abdominal Fat Mass at School-Age: The Generation R Study". Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 30 5 (2016): 511-520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ppe.12307.
    10.1111/ppe.12307
  91. Afonso, Lisa; Lopes, Carla; Severo, Milton; Santos, Susana; Real, Helena; Durão, Catarina; Moreira, Pedro; Oliveira, Andreia. "Bidirectional association between parental child-feeding practices and body mass index at 4 and 7 y of age". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 103 3 (2016): 861-867. http://dx.doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.115.120824.
    10.3945/ajcn.115.120824
  92. Santos, Susana; Gaillard, Romy; Oliveira, Andreia; Barros, Henrique; Hofman, Albert; Franco, Oscar H.; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.. "Subcutaneous fat mass in infancy and cardiovascular risk factors at school-age: The generation R study". Obesity 24 2 (2016): 424-429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.21343.
    10.1002/oby.21343
  93. Santos, S.; Vilela, S.; Padrão, P.; Caraher, M.. "Sex-related dietary changes of Portuguese university students after migration to London, UK". Nutrition and Dietetics 72 4 (2015): 340-346. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84953280558&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/1747-0080.12154
  94. Vilela, Sofia; Santos, Susana; Padrão, Patrícia; Caraher, Martin. "Length of Migration and Eating Habits of Portuguese University Students Living in London, United Kingdom". Ecology of Food and Nutrition 53 4 (2014): 419-435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2013.834818.
    10.1080/03670244.2013.834818
  95. Santos, S; Oliveira, A; Pinho, C; Casal, S; Lopes, C. "Fatty acids derived from a food frequency questionnaire and measured in the erythrocyte membrane in relation to adiponectin and leptin concentrations". European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 68 5 (2014): 555-560. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2014.36.
    10.1038/ejcn.2014.36
  96. Santos, Susana; Oliveira, Andreia; Lopes, Carla. "Systematic review of saturated fatty acids on inflammation and circulating levels of adipokines". Nutrition Research 33 9 (2013): 687-695. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nutres.2013.07.002.
    10.1016/j.nutres.2013.07.002
  97. Santos, Susana; Oliveira, Andreia; Casal, Susana; Lopes, Carla. "Saturated fatty acids intake in relation to C-reactive protein, adiponectin, and leptin: A population-based study". Nutrition 29 6 (2013): 892-897. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2013.01.009.
    10.1016/j.nut.2013.01.009
  98. Moreira, Pedro; Santos, Susana; Padrão, Patrícia; Cordeiro, Tânia; Bessa, Mariana; Valente, Hugo; Barros, Renata; et al. "Food Patterns According to Sociodemographics, Physical Activity, Sleeping and Obesity in Portuguese Children". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 7 3 (2010): 1121-1138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7031121.
    10.3390/ijerph7031121
Preprint
  1. Rodrigues, Mónica; Santos, Susana; Mendes, Francisca Castro; Moreira, Pedro; Moreira, André. "Excessive gestational weight gain increases risk of childhood asthma, rhinitis, and allergic sensitization: evidence from a Birth Cohort". 2025. https://doi.org/10.22541/au.175457177.78701928/v1.
    10.22541/au.175457177.78701928/v1
  2. Valente, Berta; Araújo, B.; Pereira, Rita; Ribeiro, Ana Isabel; Barros, Henrique; Santos, Susana. "Residential exposure to green and blue spaces over childhood and cardiometabolic health outcomes: The Generation XXI birth cohort". 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.23.24315979.
    10.1101/2024.10.23.24315979
  3. Soares, Ana Gonçalves; Santos, Susana; Seyve, Emie; Nedelec, Rozenn; Puhakka, Soile; Eloranta, Aino-Maija; Mikkonen, Santtu; et al. "Prenatal urban environment and blood pressure trajectories from childhood to early adulthood". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.31.23288002.
    10.1101/2023.03.31.23288002
  4. Cadman, Tim; Elhakeem, Ahmed; Vinther, Johan Lerbech; Avraam, Demetris; Espi, Paula Carrasco; Calas, Lucinda; Cardol, Marloes; et al. "Associations of maternal education, area deprivation, proximity to greenspace during pregnancy and gestational diabetes with Body Mass Index from early childhood to early adulthood: A proof-of-concept federated analysis in seventeen birth cohorts". 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.27.22278068.
    10.1101/2022.07.27.22278068
  5. Vinther, Johan L.; Cadman, Tim; Avraam, Demetris; Ekstrøm, Claus T.; Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.; Elhakeem, Ahmed; Santos, Ana C.; et al. "Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: findings from analyses of individual data on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies". 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.01.22275859.
    10.1101/2022.06.01.22275859
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Maternal and infant adiposity: metabolic health related consequences". PhD, Erasmus MC, 2017. https://repub.eur.nl/pub/102844/dissertation_Susana-Santos.pdf.
  2. "Saturated fatty acids, inflammatory markers and adipokines". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, 2012.
  3. "Food habits and food choice motives among university students settled in London: The role of gender and culture". Degree, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/54655.

Other

Other output
  1. Pre-registered Analysis Plan for "Association of birth weight centiles with infant and child growth dynamics." (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/QSFWV). 2024. Elhakeem, A; Li, Z; Eriksson, J; Fleisch, A; Heude, B; Parker, R; Santos, Susana; et al.
  2. Development of an e-learning module about confounding in life course epidemiology (available on the Early Nutrition eAcademy platform, https://chifha.med.lmu.de/course/index.php?categoryid=85). 2021. Santos, Susana; Pizzi, Costanza; Zugna, Daniela; Richiardi, Lorenzo.
  3. Development of an app for personal use to monitor the gestational weight gain (available on https://euchildcohortnetwork.eu/applications/). 2019. Santos, Susana; Eekhout, Iris.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/10/20 Predicting multimorbidity risk in early adolescence using early-life urban environmental exposures: The Generation XXI birth cohort 11th Congress of the European Academy of Paediatric Societies
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/03/21 Green and blue spaces residential exposure over childhood and multimorbidity in adolescence (online lightning talk) MCAA Annual Conference
(Krakow, Poland)
2025/01/17 Generation XXI (G21) birth cohort (invited) Rhea cohort meetings (online)
2024/11/13 Green and blue spaces residential exposure over childhood and multimorbidity in adolescence 17th European Public Health Conference 2024
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/11/01 The first thousand days of life and cardiometabolic health in an exposome approach - Grand Round (invited; in Portuguese)
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2023/10/26 Opportunities and paths in search of collaborative projects between international institutions - Seminar (invited; in Portuguese)
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Faculty of Medicine ( Porto Alegre, Brazil)
2023/06/01 Generation XXI (G21) birth cohort (invited) EUGLOHRIA Matchmaking Workshop - Longitudinal Approaches to Health Research: Cohorts and Biobanking (online event)
2023/03/03 The first 1000 days of life: An opportunity to promote child health (invited; in Portuguese) Event 'Promotion of Healthy Eating Past, Present, Future'
Directorate General of Health National Program for the Promotion of Healthy Eating (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11/17 How do Portuguese children grow? (invited; in Portuguese) Portuguese Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (SPEDP) Annual Meeting.
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/09/01 Early-life urban exposome and childhood obesity: findings from the Generation XXI birth cohort XL Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE)
(Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain)
2022/01 The Gen R Cohort: Child Health Outcomes from Maternal Bisphenol/Phthalate Exposures (invited) PPTOX-VII: International Conference on Prenatal Programming and Toxicity (Virtual conference)
2018/06 Gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy and childhood outcomes (invited) Academic Center of Excellence Pregnancy and Childhood Day
(Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2017/11 Maternal obesity, weight gain and birth outcomes (invited) Academic Center of Excellence: Centre for Pregnancy and Child
( Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2017/10 Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America and Oceania 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
(Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2017/06 Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes and childhood overweight: individual participant data meta-analyses (invited) European Birth Cohorts Network meeting
(Barcelona, Spain)
2016/10 Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes: Individual participant data meta-analysis of 230,000 singleton births Porto Birth Cohorts Meeting
(Porto, Portugal)
2016/10 Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes: Individual participant data meta-analysis of 230,000 singleton births The Power of Programming 2016
(Munich, Germany)
2015/05 Nuts and cardiometabolic health [in Portuguese] (invited) XIV Congress of Food and Nutrition
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/11 Effect of n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids intake at 4 years old on body fat patterns at 7 years old in the Generation XXI birth cohort III World Congress of Public Health Nutrition
(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
2014/06 Identification of clusters of body composition and time changes from 4 to 7 years old in children from Generation XXI 10th International Symposium on Body Composition
(Cascais, Portugal)
2014/05 Intrauterine programming of body fat patterns: a path analysis in 4 years-old children from Generation XXI International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Annual Meeting
(San Diego, California, United States)
2013/10 Identification of clusters of body composition and time changes from 4 to 7 years in children from Generation XXI 54th Annual Meeting European Society for Paediatric Research
(Porto, Portugal)
2013/05 Fatty acids derived from a food frequency questionnaire and measured in erythrocyte-membrane in relation to adiponectin and leptin concentrations [in Portuguese] XII Congress of Food and Nutrition
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2012/05 Adherence to a healthy dietary pattern and body fat distribution evaluated by different methods (DXA and anthropometry) in Portuguese adults [in Portuguese] XI Congress of Food and Nutrition
(Porto, Portugal)
2011/11 Effect of macronutrients on central and peripheral body fat [in Portuguese] 15th Portuguese Congress of Obesity
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2011/05 Influence of Dietary Fatty acids on serum Leptin in Portuguese adults [in Portuguese] X Congress of Food and Nutrition & II Ibero-American Congress of Nutrition
(Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current The association of growth trajectory profiles, nutritional intake, and dietary patterns with the development of asthma and allergic diseases: evidence from a birth cohort
Co-supervisor of Mónica Carolina Rodrigues
 PhD in Public Health
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2022 - Current Association between social, biological and care determinants with the adequacy of newborn weight to gestational age and its impact on infant mortality in Porto Alegre
Co-supervisor of Carolina Anele
 PhD in Child and Adolescent Health
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2024 - 2024 Development of a predictive model for multimorbidity in adolescents
Co-supervisor of Rodrigo Melo Abrantes
 Masters in Informatics Engineering
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Understanding multimorbidity in adolescence through unsupervised learning
Co-supervisor of Francisco Branquinho
 Master in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2018 - 2023 Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Bisphenols: Growth and health from fetal life until adolescence
Co-supervisor of Chalana Sol
 PhD
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
2018 - 2022 Cardiovascular and brain health in early life
Co-supervisor of Carolina Silva
 PhD
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
2016 - 2022 Early-life stress and childhood cardio-metabolic health
Co-supervisor of Florianne Vehmeijer
 PhD
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
2016 - 2021 Environmental exposures and maternal and child health
Co-supervisor of Elise Philips
 PhD
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
2017 - 2019 Determinants and consequences of fatty liver in children
Supervisor of Madelon Geurtsen
 Master in Clinical Epidemiology
Nihes - Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Netherlands

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/04/04 - 2025/04/04 Co-organizer of the activities and participation in the Science and Technology Exhibition of the National Forum of Ciência Viva School Clubs, representing the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto booth (Target population: students from pre-school to secondary education) (2025/04/04 - 2025/04/05) Ciência Viva, Portugal
2024/11/22 - 2024/11/22 Organizer of the activity "Health in the City: Walking Tour" (Target population: young adults) as part of the Science and Technology Week 2024 (Ciência Viva) (2024/11/18 - 2024/11/24) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/01 Co-Organizer of the conference session ´Early-life environmental exposures and child health: what we might learn from Iberian cohorts´ (2022/08/30 - 2022/09/02)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 XL Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE), Spain
2017/10/15 - 2017/10/15 Hot Topics in Developmental Epidemiology (2017/10/15 - 2017/10/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Netherlands

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 Co-chair conference session XLI Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVIII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE), Porto, Portugal, 2023
2022 - 2022 Co-chair conference session XL Annual Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE) and the XVII Congress of the Portuguese Association of Epidemiology (APE), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, 2022
2017 - 2017 Co-chair conference session European Birth Cohorts Network meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2017
2017 - 2017 Co-chair conference session 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2017
2016 - 2016 Co-chair conference session The Power of Programming, Munich, Germany, 2016

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/01/09 Assessing and improving retention in very preterm birth cohorts: a demanding challenge
(Thesis) Arguer
 Raquel Mara Teixeira (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2021/12/15 Early life predictors of child growth trajectories and early adolescent cardiovascular health
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Parisa Montazeri (PhD)
Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Community reviewer on the editorial board of Life-Course Epidemiology and Social Inequalities in Health in Frontiers in Public Health
2022 - Current Community reviewer on the editorial board of Reproductive Epidemiology in Frontiers in Reproductive Health
2020 - Current Journals on Environmental Health (Environ Int, Environ Health Perspect, Environ Pollut, Environ Sci Technol, Ecotoxicol Environ Saf, Toxics, Environ Sci Eur, Environ Res, Environ Sci Pollut Res Int)
2017 - Current Journals on Epidemiology, Public Health, Pediatrics, Obesity/Nutrition (Eur J Epidemiol, PLoS Med, Int J Obes, Pediatr Res, Eur J Clin Nutr, Br J Nutr, Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol, Front Pediatr, Public Health Rev, Am J Clin Nutr, BMC Med)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022 - Current Portuguese Association of Epidemiology Member
2022 - Current International Epidemiological Association Member
2020 - Current European Human Exposome Network Researcher
2017 - Current EU Child Cohort Network Researcher

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Scientific Committee from ISPUP
Member
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2017/10/15 - 2017/10/18 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Regent and teacher of the discipline "Maternal and Child Health" (as part of 2nd semester) Master in Public Health Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2025/04/05 - 2025/04/05 Class: "The first thousand days of life and cardiometabolic health: The role of the exposome" (2h) Postgraduation in Pediatric Nutrition. (Pós-Graduação) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2024/01/12 - 2024/01/12 Class as part of the Perinatal Epidemiology course: "The exposome in the perinatal epidemiology: concept and methods" (7h) 5th Doctoral Program in Global Public Health 2023/2024 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2023/10/23 - 2023/10/27 Course: "Impact of the exposome on the health of children and adolescents in an epidemiological approach" (12,5h) Master and Doctoral Programmes on Child and Adolescent Health Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Faculdade de Medicina, Brazil
2023/05/06 - 2023/05/06 Class: "Generation XXI: Potential of a birth cohort to support health programming" (2h) Postgraduation in Pediatric Nutrition. (Pós-Graduação) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2017/10/15 - 2017/10/15 Individual participant data meta-analysis. Hot Topics in Developmental Epidemiology workshop. 10th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2016 - 2016 Teaching assistant, Biostatistical methods I (Master) Nihes - Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences, Netherlands

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2020 - 2020 External reviewer of grant proposal ZonMw, Netherlands ZonMw

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2025/04/30 ISPUP study is the first to link proximity to green and blue spaces with children's cardiometabolic health (https://ispup.up.pt/estudo-do-ispup-e-o-primeiro-a-relacionar-a-proximidade-a-espacos-verdes-e-azuis-com-a-saude-cardiometabolica-das-criancas-desde-o-nascimento-ate-a-adolescencia/) ISPUP internal news
2025/04/18 Two ISPUP researchers featured in the 2025 book “Women in Science” (https://ispup.up.pt/duas-investigadores-do-ispup-destacadas-no-livro-mulheres-na-ciencia-de-2025/) ISPUP internal news
2024/09/14 Os “miúdos” da Geração 21, estudo único em Portugal, fazem 18 anos (https://www.publico.pt/2024/09/14/sociedade/reportagem/miudos-geracao-21-estudo-unico-portugal-fazem-18-anos-2101441) Público
2023/02/24 Investigadora do ISPUP distinguida com bolsa Marie Curie Notícias UP

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2025/05/03 - 2025/05/03 Diário da Manhã - TVI (https://tviplayer.iol.pt/programa/diario-da-manha/53c6b2e63004dc006243aae3/video/6815e6f50cf20ac1d5f311a9) Generation XXI birth cohort

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/11/12 - Current BMI growth features and appetitive traits from childhood to adolescence (supervisor of a PhD Student under a mobility Sandwich Doctorate Program - CAPES) Paula Moreira
2023 - Current Health and Maternal-Child Mortality in Guarujá: Birth cohort Guarujá (supervisor of Postdoctoral researcher) Maíra Malta
2024/09/01 - 2024/10/31 Urban exposome and body mass index trajectories from birth to adolescence (supervisor of a postdoctoral researcher with a H2020 ATHLETE mobility fellowship) Tom Ranger
2024/01/01 - 2024/07/31 Neighborhood deprivation, body mass index and body composition and fat distribution from early childhood to pre-adolescence (Erasmus+ Traineeship Programm supervisor) Greta Piazza
2023/09/01 - 2024/02/29 Green and blue spaces residential exposure over childhood and multimorbidity in adolescence: The Generation XXI birth cohort (Erasmus+ Traineeship Programm supervisor) Cara Victoria Bruns
2023 - 2024 Mode of delivery and BMI trajectories and growth features (supervisor of a PhD Student under a mobility Sandwich Doctorate Program - CAPES) Michelly da Silva Alves
2022/11/01 - 2023/07/30 Addressing Missing Data in the Development of a Risk Prediction Model for Childhood Obesity (Internship supervisor of a Master Student in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, FCUP) Mafalda Oliveira
2022 - 2022 Fetal exposure to bisphenols and phthalates and BMI-trajectories over childhood (Tutor of a Master Student in Medicine, Nihes, the Netherlands) Geneviève Delgado
2015 - 2016 Associations of maternal obesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy with subcutaneous fat mass in infancy (Tutor of a Master Student in Clinical Epidemiology, Nihes, the Netherlands) Varsha Jharap

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/02/26 - 2025/02/26 External reviewer of a PhD thesis for admission to the PhD defence (PhD candidate: Silvia Maritano; PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate Change; PhD thesis: Climate Change and Child Health: a Life Course Perspective ) Università di Torino, Italy

Scuola Universitaria Superiore Pavia, Italy
2024/01/17 - 2024/01/17 Jury for the Hiring of 1 Senior Technician within the scope of Generation XXI (President of Jury) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2024/01/05 - 2024/01/05 Jury for the Hiring of 1 Senior Technician within the scope of Generation XXI (President of jury) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2023/08/17 - 2023/08/17 Jury for the Hiring of 1 Postdoc researcher within the scope of the project ORACLE (2022.07363.PTDC) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2023/07/17 - 2023/07/17 Arguer in interview-meeting of Vânia Magalhães entitled "The role of xenobiotics from processed foods on adiposity and metabolic health outcomes" as part of the Doctoral Programme in Public Health Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2023/07/13 - 2023/07/13 Jury for the Award of 2 PhD Studentships (PhD in Global Public Health and PhD in Public Health) Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2023/01/17 - 2023/01/17 Jury for the Hiring of 1 Senior Technician within the scope of Generation XXI Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2022/05/23 - 2022/05/23 Jury for the Hiring of 1 Senior Technician within the scope of Generation XXI Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2022/05/19 - 2022/05/19 Extern expert for award of the European/International Doctoral Mention of Maria Torres Toda (PhD thesis: Influence of natural environments during pregnancy on fetal health) Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain
2021/07/15 - 2021/07/15 Extern expert for award of the European/International Doctoral Mention of Alicia Abellán Écija (PhD thesis: Early life environmental exposures and childhood respiratory health) Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona, Spain
Distinctions

Award

2025 Best Abstract Award. Predicting multimorbidity risk in early adolescence using early-life urban environmental exposures: The Generation XXI birth cohort. 11th Congress of the European Academy of Paediatric Societies. Lisbon, Portugal
2023 The SESPAS Award for the best communication in public health. Predicting the risk of overweight/obesity in adolescence using population-level pregnancy and birth data. XLI Annual Scientific Meeting of SEE and the XVIII Congress of APE. Porto, Portugal
Spanish Society for Public Health and Sanitary Administration, Spain
2016 New Investigator Award. Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes: Individual participant data meta-analysis of 230,000 singleton births. The Power of Programming 2016. Munich, Germany
2015 1st prize for best poster-oral communication. Associations of infant subcutaneous fat mass with total and abdominal fat mass at school-age. The Generation R Study. 9th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Cape Town, South Africa
2013 1st prize for best oral communication. Fatty acids derived from a food frequency questionnaire and measured in erythrocyte-membrane in relation to adiponectin and leptin concentrations [in Portuguese]. XII Congress of Food and Nutrition. Lisbon, Portugal
2012 1st prize for best oral communication. Adherence to a healthy dietary pattern and body fat distribution evaluated by different methods (DXA and anthropometry) in Portuguese adults [in Portuguese]. XI Congress of Food and Nutrition. Porto, Portugal