prof. dr. F. Janssen

Research lines:

Fanny Janssen leads the research line "Population, Mortality and Health" and obtained in 2014 a prestigious Dutch research fellowship (VIDI) from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for her research proposal on "Smoking, alcohol and obesity - ingredients for improved and robust mortality projections"

See here for the different projects within her research line "Population, Mortality and Health"

See here for the project website of her VIDI research project "Smoking, alcohol and obesity - ingredients for improved and robust mortality projections".

Current supervision of PhD researchers:

• Nikoletta Vidra, The obesity epidemic in Europe: Assessing the past and current mortality burden and the future of obesity (Promotores: Fanny Janssen & Leo van Wissen) (Date of defense: 25 April 2019)
• Arun B Chandran, Comparing aging in Europe and Asia using new ageing indicators (Promotores: Fanny Janssen & Prof. James (ISEC, India); Copromotor Joop de Beer (NIDI)) (Expected date of defense: 2020)
• Vladimir Shkolnikov, Decomposing mortality disparities between and within industrialized countries (Promotores: Fanny Janssen & Leo van Wissen) (Expected date of defense: 2020)
• Dmitri Jdanov, New insights on mortality in developed countries using long-term coherent mortality data series combined with new analytical approaches (Promotores: Fanny Janssen & Leo van Wissen) (Expected date of defense: 2020)
• Rok Hrzck, Health convergence in the European Union (Promotores: Prof. Helmut Brand (Maastricht University) & Fanny Janssen; copromotor: Dr. Tobias Vogt) (Expected date of defense: 2022)
• Benjamin Aretz, Environment and health (Promotores: Prof. Gabriele Doblhammer (Rostock University) & Fanny Janssen) (Expected date of defense: 2023)