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Marco Helbich is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, focusing on understanding the impacts of urban environments on health and well-being. His research emphasizes the significance of residential neighborhoods and the dynamic environmental exposures individuals encounter in their daily lives. By utilizing mobility-based health geographies, he explores how daily mobility patterns influence health behaviors and outcomes over a person's life course. His work integrates geocomputation, spatial data science, and artificial intelligence to enhance our understanding of the interplay between urban environments and human health within the context of planetary health. Helbich’s innovative use of smartphone-based mobility tracking and deep learning models helps assess urban environmental qualities, revealing how everyday experiences affect mental health disparities and urban sustainability. He is widely published in leading international journals and serves as an Associate Editor for
Utrecht University • Utrecht, Netherlands
Teaching and conducting research on urban health and environmental influences on well-being.
Department of Psychology