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Melissa Lee
PhD fellow
Melissa Lee is an intern in the Health Impact Assessment team of the service Chemical and Physical Health Risks. She is a doctoral researcher in the Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape at the Earth & Environmental Sciences Department of KU Leuven where she investigates associations between environmental exposures, mainly green space, and human health. The main objective of Melissa’s PhD project is to improve spatial quantification methods for measuring green space to suggest better methodology for environmental epidemiology studies.
Melissa obtained a Bachelor (2008) in Environmental Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego (USA) and gained experience working in the Research & Development department at a medical device company in San Diego. In 2017, she moved to Germany to obtain a Master (2020) in Ecosystem Services at the Technical University of Dresden. In May 2022, she moved to Belgium to pursue her PhD in bioscience engineering at KU Leuven.
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