Tessa Roseboom

Professor Tessa Roseboom holds the chair in Early Development and Health at the University of Amsterdam and serves as Future Generations Commissioner at Amsterdam University Medical Centers. Her research investigates how early-life environments shape lifelong health trajectories and how these effects transmit across generations.

Key research areas:

• Long-term impacts of prenatal conditions
• Developmental origins of health and disease
• Microbiome changes across industrialization
• Policy applications for early-life interventions

Her pioneering Dutch famine studies first demonstrated how prenatal conditions permanently affect physical/mental health. As Future Generations Commissioner, she advocates for policies considering future generations' welfare, serving as ambassador for the Dutch government's Solid Start program focusing on the first 1000 days of life.