Payam Dadvand is a medical doctor by training. For the last decade he has conducted pioneering studies on the impacts of both environmental stressors (e.g. air pollution) and environmental mitigation measures (e.g. green spaces) on maternal and child health applying his expertise in using remote sensing data, GIS-based spatial analytical methods, and spatiotemporal modelling approaches. He is the coordinator of the Barcelona Life Study Cohort (BiSC) and a co-editor-in-chief for the Environmental Research.