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After completing her MSc in Veterinary Medicine in Portugal (Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2012), Mariana Simões moved to the Netherlands to follow the MSc in Epidemiology at Utrecht University (concluded in 2015). She completed her PhD in Environmental Epidemiology in October 2023 at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS, Utrecht University), where she investigated the health effects of (modelled) exposure to agricultural pollutants among the Dutch rural population using large administrative dababases. She has published 10 peer-reviwed papers and supervised 3 Master students. She currently holds a postdoc position continuing her work on the effects of agricultural pollutants on health, namely the effect of pesticides exposure on Parkinson's disease and COPD/asthma incidence and the effect of livestock-related endotoxin exposure on the incidence and severity of COVID-19. Mariana Simões concluiu o Mestrado Integrado em Medicina Veterinária em 2012 pela Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, o Mestrado em Epidemiologia em 2015 pela Universidade de Utrecht e o doutoramento em Toxicology & Environmental Health (especialidade Epidemiologia Ambiental) em Outubro de 2023 também pela Universidade de Utrecht. Publicou 10 artigos em revistas especializadas. Co-orientou 3 alunos de mestrado. Participou como Doutoranda em 1 projeto e Investigador Pós-doutorado em 2 projetos. Atua na área de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde com ênfase em Epidemiologia. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Brucelose; Pequenos Ruminantes; DIV de Vila Real; Inquérito Epidemiológico; Factores de Risco; epidemiologia ambiental; pesticidas; explorações animais; emissões agropecuárias; exposição residencial; população rural; dados administrativos; mortalidade; saúde respiratória; saúde mental; saúde neonatal; saúde pública; modelação.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mariana Lobo Simões

Citation names

  • Simões, Mariana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C810-232E-684C
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2555-5366

Email addresses

  • m.simoes@uu.nl (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Health Sciences - Epidemiology

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) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/11/01 - 2027/12/31
Ongoing
 Environmental Epidemiology (Pós-doutoramento)
Universiteit Utrecht IRAS, Netherlands
2023/11/01 - 2025/06/30
Ongoing
 Environmental Epidemiology (Pós-doutoramento)
Universiteit Utrecht IRAS, Netherlands
2016/06/01 - 2023/10/30
Concluded
 Environmental Epidemiology (Doctor)
Major in Environmental Epidemiology
Universiteit Utrecht IRAS, Netherlands
"Residential exposure to agricultural pollutants: The use of administrative data to explore the health of the Dutch rural population" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 N/A
2021/02/24 - 2021/06/17
Concluded
 Maternity leave (Outros)
Universiteit Utrecht IRAS, Netherlands
2018/01/13 - 2018/05/13
Concluded
 Maternity leave (Outros)
Universiteit Utrecht IRAS, Netherlands
2013/09 - 2015
Concluded
 Epidemiology (Master)
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
"Tick risk factors for Lyme Disease and complaints associated with infection by B. miyamotoi" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003/09 - 2012
Concluded
 Medicina Veterinária (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Saúde Pública
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Portugal
"Brucelose dos pequenos ruminantes : estudo de focos na área administrativa da divisão de intervenção veterinária de Vila Real" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/11/01 - 2026/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
Universiteit Utrecht IRAS, Netherlands
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2026/07 - 2028/06 HEART - Health Effects of Air quality on urban Residents in PorTugal using individual-level data
Project Nr 17008
Research Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/11/01 - 2026/06/30 Research on exposure of residents to pesticides 2 (OBO-2 project)
OBO-2
Post-doc
Universiteit Utrecht - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Netherlands
Ongoing
2022/05/01 - 2025/12/31 Parkinson’s Disease – Preventing Emergence of Symptoms by environmental Toxicants identification (PD-PEST)
PD-PEST
Post-doc
Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands

Universiteit Utrecht - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Netherlands
Ongoing
2022/06 - 2025/06/30 Air Quality and COVID-19 (LUVO)
30175-375
Post-doc
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Netherlands
 Nederland Ministerie van Volksgezondheid Welzijn en Sport

Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat

Nederland Ministerie van Landbouw Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit
Concluded
2016/06/01 - 2021/12/31 Research on exposure of residents to pesticides (OBO-project)
OBO
PhD Student Fellow
Universiteit Utrecht - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Netherlands
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Simões, Mariana; Jelle Zorn; Lenny Hogerwerf; Guus Velders; Lützen Portengen; Miriam Gerlofs-Nijland; Marieke Dijkema; et al. "Outdoor air pollution and risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2: a test-negative case-control study in the Netherlands". Paper presented in ISEE Young 2024 (International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Young), Rennes, 2024.
    Published
  2. Maria Gabriela M. Pinho; Yvonne Koop; Joreintje Mackenbach; Jeroen Lakerveld; Roel Vermeulen; Alfred Wagtendonk; Joline W. J. Beulens. "Abstract 19: Time-Varying Exposure to Food Retailers and Cardiovascular Disease Incidence and Mortality in the Netherlands: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study". Paper presented in EPI|Lifestyle 2024 (American Heart Association), 2024.
    Published
  3. Simões, Mariana; Anke Huss; Roel Vermeulen; Nicole Janssen. "O-SY-070 Residential exposure to pesticides and birth outcomes using the Dutch birth registry". Paper presented in 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE 2022), Atenas, 2022.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Simões, Mariana; Anke Huss; Maartje Brouwer; Esmeralda Krop; Nicole Janssen; Roel Vermeulen. "Residential proximity to specific crops and adverse birth outcomes in The Netherlands". Paper presented in 32nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, 2022.
  2. Simões, Mariana; Anke Huss; Marten Marra; Maartje Brouwer; Esmeralda Krop; Nicole Janssen; Roel Vermeulen. "Residential proximity to specific crops and cause-specific mortality in The Netherlands". Paper presented in 31st annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, 2019.
  3. Simões, Mariana; Marten Marra; Maartje Brouwer; Anke Huss; Nicole Janssen; Roel Vermeulen. "Residential proximity to specific crops and cause-specific mortality in The Netherlands". Paper presented in Veterinary Science Day (DGK-UU), 2018.
Journal article
  1. Gerbecks, J; Baliatsas, C; Yzermans, CJ; Simoes, M; Huss, A; Verheij, RA; Dückers, MLA. "Living in the vicinity of pesticide-treated crop fields: Exploring associated perceptions and psychological aspects in relation to self-reported and registry-based health symptoms". BMC Psychology 12 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-02162-1.
    Published • 10.1186/s40359-024-02162-1
  2. Maria Gabriela M. Pinho; Yvonne Koop; Joreintje D. Mackenbach; Jeroen Lakerveld; Mariana Simões; Roel Vermeulen; Alfred J. Wagtendonk; Ilonca Vaartjes; Joline W. J. Beulens. "Time-varying exposure to food retailers and cardiovascular disease hospitalization and mortality in the netherlands: a nationwide prospective cohort study". BMC Medicine (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-024-03648-w.
    10.1186/s12916-024-03648-w
  3. José H. Jacobs; Maciej Strak; Guus J.M. Velders; Jelle Zorn; Lenny Hogerwerf; Mariana Simões; Suzanne Mijnen-Visser; et al. "Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and severe COVID-19: mortality and hospital admission to COVID-19 in the Netherlands from February to December 2020". Environmental Advances (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2024.100592.
    10.1016/j.envadv.2024.100592
  4. Jelle Zorn; Mariana Simões; Guus Velders; Miriam Gerlofs-Nijland; Maciej Strak; José Jacobs; Marieke Bettine Alida Dijkema; et al. "Effects of long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution on COVID-19 incidence: A population-based cohort study accounting for SARS-CoV-2 exposure levels in the Netherlands". Environmental Research (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118812.
    10.1016/j.envres.2024.118812
  5. Mariana Simões; Jelle Zorn; Lenny Hogerwerf; Guus Velders; Lützen Portengen; Miriam Gerlofs-Nijland; Marieke Bettine Alida Dijkema; et al. "Outdoor air pollution as a risk factor for testing positive for SARS-CoV-2: A nationwide test-negative case-control study in the Netherlands". International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114382.
    10.1016/j.ijheh.2024.114382
  6. Mariana Simões; Roel Vermeulen; Lützen Portengen; Nicole Janssen; Anke Huss. "Exploring associations between residential exposure to pesticides and birth outcomes using the Dutch birth registry". Environment International 178 (2023): 108085-108085. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108085.
    Published • 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108085
  7. Simões, Mariana; Anke Huss; Maartje Brouwer; Esmeralda Krop; Nicole Janssen; Roel Vermeulen. "Residential proximity to crops and agricultural pesticide use and cause-specific mortality: A prospective census-based cohort study in the Netherlands". Science of The Total Environment 817 (2022): 152932-152932. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.152932.
    10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.152932
  8. Simões, Mariana; Nicole Janssen; Dick J. J. Heederik; Lidwien A.M. Smit; Roel Vermeulen; Anke Huss. "Residential proximity to livestock animals and mortality from respiratory diseases in The Netherlands: A prospective census-based cohort study". Environment International 161 (2022): 107140-107140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107140.
    10.1016/j.envint.2022.107140
  9. Mariana Simoes; Anke Huss; Nicole Janssen; Roel Vermeulen. "Self-reported psychological distress and self-perceived health in residents living near pesticide-treated agricultural land: a cross-sectional study in The Netherlands". Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2022): https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2021-107544.
    10.1136/oemed-2021-107544
  10. Agnetha Hofhuis; Jan van de Kassteele; Hein Sprong; Cees C. van den Wijngaard; Margriet G. Harms; Manoj Fonville; Arieke Docters van Leeuwen; Simões, Mariana; Wilfrid van Pelt. "Predicting the risk of Lyme borreliosis after a tick bite, using a structural equation model". PLOS ONE 12 7 (2017): e0181807-e0181807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181807.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0181807
  11. "Surveillance perspective on Lyme borreliosis across the European Union and European Economic Area". Eurosurveillance 22 27 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2017.22.27.30569.
    10.2807/1560-7917.es.2017.22.27.30569
Report
  1. L. Mughini-Gras; J. Zorn (auteur); J. Jacobs; D. Klinkenberg; G. Velders; J. van der Giessen; M. Gerlofs-Nijland; et al. 2024. Luchtkwaliteit en COVID-19. https://www.rivm.nl/publicaties/luchtkwaliteit-en-covid-19.
    DOI 10.21945/RIVM-2023-0449
  2. JP Zock; NAH Janssen; M Simões; DM Figueiredo; A Huss. 2022. Haalbaarheid van onderzoek naar blootstelling aan bestrijdingsmiddelen en de gezondheid van omwonenden. https://rivm.openrepository.com/handle/10029/626127.
    10.21945/RIVM-2022-0040
  3. Simões, Mariana; Anke Huss; Lüzen Portengen ; Roel Vermulen; Christos Baliastas; Michel Dückers; Robert Verheij; et al. Corresponding author: Jan-Paul Zock. 2020. Health survey on people living in the direct vicinity of agricultural plots: additional analyses. http://hdl.handle.net/10029/624457.
    10.21945/RIVM-2020-0056
  4. Mariana Simões; M. Brouwer; Esmeralda Krop; Anke Huss; Roel Vermeulen; C. Baliatsas; J. IJzermans; et al. 2018. Gezondheidsverkenning omwonenden van landbouwpercelen.
  5. Simões, Mariana; Maartje Brouwer; Esmeralda Krop; Anke Huss; Roel Vermeulen; Christos Baliastas; Joris IJzermans; et al. Corresponding author: Anton Rietveld. 2018. Gezondheidsverkenning omwonenden van landbouwpercelen. http://hdl.handle.net/10029/622170.
    10.21945/RIVM-2018-0068
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Residential exposure to agricultural pollutants". 2023.
    10.33540/1861
  2. "Residential exposure to agricultural pollutants: The use of administrative data to explore the health of the Dutch rural population". PhD, Universiteit Utrecht - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), 2023. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/431976.
  3. Fernandes, Mariana de Oliveira Lobo. "Brucelose dos pequenos ruminantes : estudo de focos na área administrativa da divisão de intervenção veterinária de Vila Real". Master, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/4399.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/09/04 Parkinson’s Disease in the Netherlands: incidence and spatial variation in 2017-2022 XLIII Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE) & XX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE)
Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE) & Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE) ( Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
2025/09/03 Livestock-related microbial air pollution exposure and COVID-19 outcomes: a nationwide study in the Netherlands XLIII Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE) & XX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE)
Sociedad Española de Epidemiología (SEE) & Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE) ( Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
2025/07/10 Impact of livestock-related air pollution on public health: a nationwide study on COVID-19 in the Netherlands 7th Statistics on Health Decision Making: Epidemiology
Aveiro University and Centro académico Clínico Egas Moniz health alliance (Aveiro, Portugal)
2025/07/10 Parkinson’s disease in the Netherlands: incidence and spatial variation in 2017-2022 7th Statistics on Health Decision Making: Epidemiology
Aveiro University and Centro Académico Clínico Egas Moniz Health Alliance (Aveiro, Portugal)
2025/02/07 Use of administrative databases in the One Health context: The case of livestock-related microbial air pollution and COVID-19 in the Netherlands 1º Congresso Nacional da Saúde e Ambiente
Conselho Português para a Saúde e Ambiente (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/06/06 Outdoor air pollution and risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2: a test-negative case-control study in the Netherlands ISEE Young 2024
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (Rennes, France)
2023/09/06 Residential exposure to pesticides and birth outcomes: a cohort study using the Dutch birth registry XLI Reunião da Sociedade Espanhola de Epidemiologia (SEE) e do XVIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE)
Sociedade Espanhola de Epidemiologia (SEE) e Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE) (Porto, Portugal)
2022/09/20 Residential exposure to pesticides and birth outcomes using the Dutch birth registry 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE 2022)
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (Atenas, Greece)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - 2024/06/30 Livestock-emitted air pollution and the risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2: a test negative case-control study in the Netherlands
Co-supervisor
 Toxicology and Environmental Health (Master)
Universiteit Utrecht - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Netherlands
2022/06/17 - 2022/07/29 The effect of prenatal and postnatal exposure to pesticides on neurocognitive and behavioral development in children, a review
Co-supervisor
 Epidemiology (Master)
Universiteit Utrecht - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Netherlands
2018/01/01 - 2021/01/31 Study on the association between residential pesticide exposure to organophosphates or carbamates and adult asthma and COPD in The Netherlands
Co-supervisor
 Toxicology and Environmental Health (Master)
Universiteit Utrecht IRAS, Netherlands

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/01/15 - 2019/01/29 High performance computing (HPC) for first time users This was an entry level workshop, aimed at those with little to reasonable programming background but no significant experience with the usage of a high performance computer. The workshop provided participants with an awareness of the usefulness of using a cluster computer such as LISA for complex or heavy computations on their own projects with some degree of user independence. (2019/01/15)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universiteit Utrecht IRAS, Netherlands

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/02/21 - Current High Performance Computing How to start and incorporate on your research – a testimonial Oral presentation on my experience in using HPC on my own researchin and provide information available facilities and support to use HPC at Utrecht University.
Other
 Meeting - researchers using sensors in One Health and Veterinary Medicine
2016/11 - Current Course attendence: Supervision of Master's students
Other
 Supervision of Master's students
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
2016/10/31 - Current Workshop attendence: Research Planning and Time Management
Workshop
 Research Planning and Time Management
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
2019/07/08 - 2019/07/12 Course attendence: Short course on Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic disease and the Exposome
Other
 Short course on Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic disease and the Exposome
Universiteit Utrecht - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Netherlands
2019/02/20 - 2019/04/24 Course attendance: Writing for Academic Publication
Other
 Writing for Academic Publication
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
2017/09/25 - 2017/12/11 Course attendance: Teaching in the International Classroom
Other
 Teaching in the International Classroom
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
2017/02/06 - 2017/03/30 Course attendence: Writing a Scientific Paper Writing a Scientific Paper
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
2016/08 - 2016/09 Course attedance: Achieving your Goals and Performing more Succesfully in your PhD
Other
 Achieving your Goals and Performing more Succesfully in your PhD
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
2016/08/19 - 2016/08/19 Workshop attendence: Research data management
Workshop
 Research data management
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025/09/25 - Current Environmental Health (1476-069X) Springer Nature
2022/04 - Current Environmental Research Elsevier
2024/07/17 - 2025/04/09 Environmental Epidemiology (2474-7882) Wolters Kluwer Health
2024/04 - 2024/07 Frontiers in Microbiology (1664-302X) Frontiers Media S.A
2023/12 - 2024/01 Environmental Health Perspectives EPH
2022/06 - 2022/10 Environmental Pollution Elsevier

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2024/06/08 - Current International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE)
2023/06/05 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Epidemiologia (APE)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/05/31 - 2024/05/31 Lecture: Linking exposure to health - a step by step look. After pondering on exposure and outcome assessment options in environmental epidemiological studies and how linkge between data can be achieved, students were invited to think about the interpretation of results from studies in the field of environmental epidemiology. Environmental Health (Bachelor) Universiteit Utrecht - Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Netherlands

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2018/11/13 - 2019/01/31 Case studies supervisor for the BSc course Environmental Health Students, Anne Buizer, Ariel Yew, Julie Wortmann, Naomi Bakken

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025/06/11 - Current Peer Review – Travel Grant Application on Childhood Cancer and Pesticide Exposure
Distinctions

Other distinction

2025 3rd honorable mention for best oral communitation at 1st National Congress on Health and Environment
Conselho Português para Saúde e Ambiente (CPSA) , Portugal
2025 Honorable mention for best oral communitation at 7th Statistics on Health Decision Making: Epidemiology