People

The Spatiotemporal Exposures and Toxicology group in October 2023. Top Row: Eva Marques, Daniel Zilber, Ranadeep Daw, Mariana Alifa. Bottom Row: Insang Song, Kyle Messier

Group Lead

Kyle P Messier, PhD

Kyle P Messier is a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in the Division of Translational Toxicology (DTT). He leads the Spatiotemporal Exposures and Toxicology group, {SET}grp, within the Predictive Toxicology Branch. He also holds a joint appointment with the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) in Bethesda, Maryland and a secondary appointment in the NIEHS Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch. Messier received a B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Postdoctoral Fellows

It’s no secret that the engine driving cutting edge research across the world is postdoctoral fellows. The SET group has many talented postdoctoral fellows with a variety of backgrounds including spatial statistics, machine learning, epidemiology, atmospheric sciences, and geography.

Current fellows, alphabetically by last name:

Mariana Alifa

Dr. Mariana Alifa research interets lie at the nexus of environment and society. She has experience in air quality modeling, health effect quantification, uncertainty assessment, and space-time geospatial data resources. Currently, Dr. Alifa Kassien is working on novel physics informed neural networks for atmospheric dispersion models of data sparse chemicals. She also has interest in science education and outreach where she is working on developing knowledge and dissemination materials on climate change and health effects.

Eva Marques

Dr. Eva Marques is an applied geostatistician with a primary focus in urban climatology. She uses Bayesian and machine learning methods to predict climate exposures such as the urban heat island effect. She holds a MS in Applied Math from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Toulouse, France, and a PhD in Urban Climatology from the National Meteorlogical Center in Toulouse, France.

Data Analyst

Mitchell Manware

Mr. Mitchell Manware holds a BS in Business and Health Care Management from the University of Connecticut and a MPH from the Yale School of Public Health. He has experience in geospatial data analysis, public health data visualization, and policy-oriented writing. Currently, he is a geospatial analyst in climate change and health funded by the Climate and Health Outcomes Research Data Systems (CHORDS) project where is developing geospatial tools and educational resources focused on environment, climate, and health.

Former Members

  1. Kristin Eccles, Postdoctoral Fellow, Now at Health Canada

  2. Melissa Lowe, Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Now at Duke Cancer Institute

  3. Taylor A Potter, Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Now in medical school at Meherry Medical College

  4. Alvin Sheng, Summer Intern (2021), Currently a 5th year PhD Student in Statistics at North Carolina State University

  5. Daniel Zilber, Postdoctoral Fellow, Now a Staff Scientist at NIEHS with Shanshan Zhao in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch

  6. Ranadeep Daw, Postdoctoral Fellow, Now a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of West Florida in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

  7. Insang Song, Now a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Seoul National University, Korea