Jie Chen received a PhD degree from Utrecht University (Netherlands) in Environmental Epidemiology. Her research has been focusing on air pollution exposure assessment and air pollution epidemiology. She was the project manager of the multi-center ELAPSE (Effects of Low-level Air Pollution, a Study in Europe) project from 2019 to 2022. The ELAPSE project studies effects of low-level air pollution on mortality and morbidity, using data from European cohort studies and administrative databases. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, working on the impacts of the exposome during childhood and risk of hypertension in adulthood in the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS).