Publications

2026

Journal Articles

Prevalence and spatial distribution of highly processed food in a population-based study and associations with socioeconomic and health factors

R. Dumont; V. Richard; N. Fellay; D. De Ridder; S. Schrempft et al. 

Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. 2026. Vol. 75. DOI : 10.1016/j.clnesp.2026.103420.

Environmental pollution, apolipoprotein A-1 autoantibodies and cardiovascular risk: evidence from a geospatial cross-sectional study

N. Fellay; S. Pagano; P. Marques-Vidal; P. Vollenweider; S. Stringhini et al. 

Atherosclerosis Plus. 2026. Vol. 65, p. 100566. DOI : 10.1016/j.athplu.2026.100566.

Scaling the mountains: multiscale proxies derived from very high-resolution digital elevation models to characterize heterogeneous alpine landscapes and their local effects on plant adaptation

S. Joost; C. Parisod; F. Gugerli 

Alpine Botany. 2026. DOI : 10.1007/s00035-026-00368-0.

Black Sea picocyanobacteria exploit ancestral traits for energy and chlorophyll production in dark anoxia

M. Bartosiewicz; P. J. Cabello-Yeves; E. M. Eckert; A. Di Cesare; R. J. Puxty et al. 

ISME Communications. 2026. DOI : 10.1093/ismeco/ycag159.

Spatial clustering of anxiety and depression and determinants of high-risk areas in a Swiss urban population, 2023–2025

N. Fellay; L. Jawal; P. Voruz; H. Baysson; S. Schrempft et al. 

Journal of Affective Disorders. 2026. Vol. 405. DOI : 10.1016/j.jad.2026.121623.

Climate change perspectives and associations with mental health in a population-based study

D. De Ridder; R. Dumont; A. R. Bouhet; J. Lamour; S. Mechoullam et al. 

npj Climate Action. 2026. Vol. 5, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s44168-026-00377-z.

Spatiotemporal dynamics of breast cancer screening across half a million invitations in Geneva, Switzerland

D. De Ridder; B. Arzel; S. Joost; I. Guessous 

Communications Medicine. 2026. Vol. 6. DOI : 10.1038/s43856-026-01451-7.

Coral Genetic Structure in the Western Indian Ocean Mirrors Ocean Circulation and Thermal Stress History

A. S. Guillaume; S. Joost; S. Curpen; D. Dumur Neelayya; L. Harree‐Somah et al. 

Evolutionary Applications. 2026. Vol. 19, num. 2. DOI : 10.1111/eva.70206.

Spatial variations of sleep impairment indicators associated with night-time noise: A fine-scale population-based study

G. Kathari; P. Voruz; H. Baysson; S. Schrempft; S. Stringhini et al. 

Sleep health. 2026. DOI : 10.1016/j.sleh.2025.11.008.

Theses

Urban maps of the brain: associations between city living, brain anatomy, and mental and cognitive health

M. A. Vieira Ruas / S. Joost; B. Draganski (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2026. 

Student Projects

Cartographie des paramètres de sensibilité à la sécheresse des terres agricoles dans le canton de Vaud

M. Gonzales 

2026.

2025

Journal Articles

Exploring geographical differences in semen quality of young men using spatial dependence analysis

R. Rahban; H-A. Santa-Ramírez; A. Senn; E. Stettler; I. Guessous et al. 

Human Reproduction. 2025. DOI : 10.1093/humrep/deaf182.

Geographical clusters of obesity in France related to complex longitudinal socio-behavioral profiles: findings from the GAZEL cohort

S. Joost; N. Fellay; P. Voruz; A. Ladoy; G. Kathari et al. 

Maturitas. 2025. Vol. 200, p. 108665. DOI : 10.1016/j.maturitas.2025.108665.

Associations Between Exercise Patterns and Health Outcomes in Sedentary and Non-sedentary Individuals: a Longitudinal Population-based Study in Geneva, Switzerland

M. Nehme; D. De Ridder; G. Kathari; H. Baysson; S. Schrempft et al. 

BMJ PUBLIC HEALTH. 2025. Vol. 3, num. 2. DOI : 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001745.

Geospatial clustering of autoantibodies against apolipoprotein A-1 and environmental pollution in the Geneva general population

N. Fellay; N. Vuilleumier; S. Pagano; P. Marques‐Vidal; P. Vollenweider et al. 

Atherosclerosis. 2025. Vol. 407. DOI : 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2025.120344.

Cluster-specific urban contexts associated with high levels of sleep impairment and daytime sleepiness: Findings from the Urbasan collaborative study

P. Voruz; M. Vieira Ruas; N. Fellay; N. Romano; M. Mussini et al. 

Journal of Affective Disorders. 2025. Vol. 382, p. 392 – 398. DOI : 10.1016/j.jad.2025.04.133.

Autoantibodies against apolipoprotein A-1 and cadmium: Possible links to cardiovascular and liver diseases across multiple models

S. Pagano; S. Joost; N. Fellay; E. Somm; P. Marques‐Vidal et al. 

Atherosclerosis. 2025. Vol. 407, num. Supplement_1. DOI : 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2025.119673.

Cooling rates and melt extraction timescales determined by diffusion chronometry on shallow crustal plutonic rocks

T. Grocolas; O. Müntener; E. M. Bloch; S. Escrig; A. Ulyanov et al. 

Contributions to mineralogy and petrology. Beitrage zur Mineralogie und Petrologie. 2025. Vol. 180, num. 8. DOI : 10.1007/s00410-025-02238-0.

Local-scale deprivation is associated with the spatial distribution of poor diet quality in adults: A cross-sectional population-based study in Switzerland

H. A. Santa-Ramírez; U. Bilal; P. Marques-Vidal; M. Nehme; I. Guessous et al. 

Social Science and Medicine. 2025. Vol. 374, p. 117926. DOI : 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117926.

Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass and Width Using the Four-lepton Final State in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13 Tev

G. Della Ricca; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 2025. Vol. 111, num. 9. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.092014.

Measurements of the Higgs Boson Production Cross Section in the Four-lepton Final State in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13.6 Tev

V. Chekhovsky; A. Hayrapetyan; V. Makarenko; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam et al. 

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. 2025. num. 5. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP05(2025)079.

Harnessing Multiscale Topographic Environmental Variables for Regional Coral Species Distribution Models

A. Guillaume; R. Ferrari; O. Selmoni; V. J. L. Mocellin; H. Denis et al. 

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 2025. Vol. 15, num. 4. DOI : 10.1002/ece3.71292.

Bottom Quark Energy Loss and Hadronization with B+ and Bs0 Nuclear Modification Factors Using Pp and Pbpb Collisions at √snn=5.02 Tev

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. 2025. num. 2. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP02(2025)195.

Large-scale georeferenced neuroimaging and psychometry data link the urban environmental exposome with brain health

M. V. Ruas; E. Vajana; F. Kherif; A. Lutti; M. Preisig et al. 

Environmental research. 2025. Vol. 267. DOI : 10.1016/j.envres.2024.120632.

SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Risk of New Chronic Conditions: Insights from a Longitudinal Population-Based Study

D. De Ridder; A. Uppal; S. Rouzinov; J. Lamour; M. Zaballa et al. 

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2025. Vol. 22, num. 2. DOI : 10.3390/ijerph22020166.

Measurement of Inclusive and Differential Cross Sections of Single Top Quark Production in Association with a W Boson in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13.6 Tev

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025. num. 1, p. 107. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP01(2025)107.

Elemental cryo-imaging reveals SOS1-dependent vacuolar sodium accumulation

P. Ramakrishna; F. M. Gamez-Arjona; E. Bellani; C. Martin-Olmos; S. Escrig et al. 

NATURE. 2025. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-024-08403-y.

Deciphering Usage and Expenditures of Complementary Medicine: A Five-Year Longitudinal Data Analysis of 205,423 Individuals

D. De Ridder; C. Bagnoud; S. Joost; I. Guessous 

Mayo Clinic proceedings. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.09.018.

Locally Specific Genome-Wide Signatures of Adaptation to Environmental Variation at High Resolution in an Alpine Plant

A. Rogivue; K. Leempoel; A. S. Guillaume; R. R. Choudhury; F. Felber et al. 

Molecular Ecology. 2025. DOI : 10.1111/mec.17646.

Working Papers

Spatial Clustering and Multivariate Typologies during lifespan of Hospitalized Traumatic Brain Injury Cases: A Population-Based Study

A. Ayma; Q. Legrand; N. Fellay; G. Kathari; D. Delannoy et al. 

2025

Coral genetic structure in the Western Indian Ocean mirrors ocean circulation and thermal stress

A. S. Guillaume; S. Joost; S. Curpen; D. D. Neelayya; L. Harree-Somah et al. 

2025

Student Projects

Diagnostic territorial de la neuropsychologie clinique en Suisse romande

T. Brotherson 

2025.

2024

Journal Articles

Observation of Quantum Entanglement in Top Quark Pair Production in Proton-proton Collisions at √s=13 Tev

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; E. ASILAR et al. 

REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. 2024. Vol. 87, num. 11. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6633/ad7e4d.

Fossil biocalcite remains open to isotopic exchange with seawater for tens of millions of years

D. G. Cisneros Lazaro; A. Adams; J. H. Stolarski; S. Bernard; D. Daval et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2024. Vol. 14, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-024-75588-7.

Spatial dependence of non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a Swiss region: A retrospective analysis

G. Lengen; O. Hugli; D. De Ridder; I. Guessous; A. Ladoy et al. 

Resuscitation Plus. 2024. Vol. 19. DOI : 10.1016/j.resplu.2024.100713.

Search for bottom-type vectorlike quark pair production in dileptonic and fully hadronic final states in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 2024. num. 5. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.052004.

Observation of the Ξb → ψ(2S decay and studies of the Ξb (5945)0 baryon in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 2024. num. 1. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.012002.

Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons decaying in the CMS muon detectors in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

PHYSICAL REVIEW C. 2024. num. 1. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.012004.

Evidence for tWZ production in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV in multilepton final states

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

PHYSICS LETTERS B. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138815.

Extracting the speed of sound in quark-gluon plasma with ultrarelativistic lead-lead collisions at the LHC

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. 2024. Vol. 87, num. 7. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6633/ad4b9b.

Test of lepton flavor universality in B± → K± μ+μ and B± → K± e+ e decays in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. 2024. Vol. 87, num. 7. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6633/ad4e65.

Integrating very high resolution environmental proxies in genotype-environment association studies

A. S. Guillaume; K. Leempoel; A. Rogivue; F. Gugerli; C. Parisod et al. 

Evolutionary Applications. 2024. Vol. 17, num. 7. DOI : 10.1111/eva.13737.

Search for long-lived heavy neutrinos in the decays of B mesons produced in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. 2024. num. 6. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP06(2024)183.

Search for heavy neutral leptons in final states with electrons, muons, and hadronically decaying tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. 2024. num. 6. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP06(2024)123.

Environmental and geographical factors influencing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 over 2 years: a fine-scale spatiotemporal analysis

D. de Ridder; A. Ladoy; Y. Choi; D. Jacot; S. Vuilleumier et al. 

FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 2024. Vol. 12. DOI : 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1298177.

Nonresonant central exclusive production of charged-hadron pairs in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 2024. num. 11. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.112013.

Observation of the J/ψ → μ+μμ+μ decay in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 2024. Vol. 109, num. 11. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L111101.

Combined search for electroweak production of winos, binos, higgsinos, and sleptons in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan; A. Tumasyan; W. Adam; J. W. Andrejkovic; T. Bergauer et al. 

PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 2024. num. 11. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.112001.

Book Chapters

Mapping the Human Brain with Computational Anatomy

B. Draganski; S. Joost; F. Kherif 

Environmental Neuroscience; Springer Nature, 2024. p. 533 – 546.

Neuroscience and Geographic Information Systems to Investigate the Impact of Global Warming on Mood Disorders and Brain Plasticity in Urban Areas

M. V. Ruas; R. Paganini; B. Draganski; S. Joost 

Environmental Neuroscience; Springer Nature, 2024. p. 491 – 515.