About Z. (Zhangling) Chen
Introduction
I am a postdoc at the department of Epidemiology and my research focuses on the role of nutrition and gut microbiome in the development of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. To explore these associations, I work with data from several large population-based cohorts including the Rotterdam Study, the Health Professionals’ Follow-up Study, the Nurses’ Health Study and so on.
Field(s) of expertise
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Nutrition
- Gut microbiome
- Epidemiology
Education and career
- 2008: MD degree
- 2011: MSc in Medicine
- 2018: MSc in Clinical Epidemiology
- 2019: PhD
Teaching activities
I supervised several Master students in the past few years.
Scholarships, grants, and awards
- Travel grant, granted by the 53rd annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Lisbon
- Travel grant, granted by the 54th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Berlin
- Albert Renold Travel Fellowship Programme, granted by European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes
- International Fellowship, granted by Nutricia Research Foundation
- 2018 best scientific paper award, granted by Alpro Foundation
