Yuchan Mou

Yuchan Mou is a Researcher and PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam's Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, specializing in nutrition epidemiology and early-life health determinants. Her work bridges clinical psychiatry with population health through large-scale cohort analyses.

Her research focuses on nutritional influences on child development, examining how dietary patterns, nutrient intake (particularly folic acid and vitamin D), and environmental exposures shape obesity trajectories, neurodevelopmental outcomes (ADHD/ASD), and long-term disease risks. Key methodologies include predictive modeling of cohort data, systematic reviews, and multi-exposure analysis across European populations.

Recent publications reveal trends in interdisciplinary health research, connecting prenatal nutrition with brain structure, early anthropometry with adult cancer risk, and environmental pollutants with pediatric stress biomarkers. Her work demonstrates growing emphasis on life-course approaches and exposome-wide analyses in child health epidemiology.

Mou actively collaborates across six European cohorts, with research gaining significant media attention—including coverage by over 140 news outlets for her colorectal cancer meta-analysis. As a PhD candidate, she contributes to major consortiums like the Global Cancer Update Programme while developing translational frameworks for early-life interventions.