Publications

2026

Journal Articles

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

2024

Journal Articles

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.

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.

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.

Spatial analysis of 10-year predicted risk and incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: the CoLaus cohort

G. Jordan; D. Ridder; S. Joost; P. Vollenweider; M. Preisig et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2024. Vol. 14, num. 1, p. 4752 (2024). DOI : 10.1038/s41598-024-54900-5.

Theses

The role of spatial epidemiology to support public health policies : case studies applied to health promotion, noncommunicable and infectious diseases in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

A. L. Ladoy / S. Joost; I. Guessous (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

At what spatial scale does natural selection operate? Using multiscale frameworks to calibrate the effects of environmental factors across landscape continuums

A. S. Guillaume / S. Joost (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 

Book Chapters

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.

Mapping the Human Brain with Computational Anatomy

B. Draganski; S. Joost; F. Kherif 

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

2023

Journal Articles

Multiple genomic solutions for local adaptation in two closely related species (sheep and goats) facing the same climatic constraints

B. Benjelloun; K. Leempoel; F. Boyer; S. Stucki; I. Streeter et al. 

Molecular Ecology. 2023. DOI : 10.1111/mec.17257.

Small area vulnerability, household food insecurity and child malnutrition in Medellin, Colombia: results from a repeated cross-sectional study

H-A. Santa-Ramírez; G-J. Otálvaro-Castro; S. Joost; H. Melgar-Quiñonez; U. Bilal et al. 

The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. 2023. Vol. 23, num. 100521, p. 1 – 10. DOI : 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100521.

Artificial intelligence and visual analytics in geographical space and cyberspace: Research opportunities and challenges

M. Chen; C. Claramunt; A. coltekin; X. Liu; P. Peng et al. 

Earth-Science Reviews. 2023. Vol. 241, p. 104438. DOI : 10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104438.

The Reef Environment Centralized InFormation System (RECIFS) : An integrated geo‐environmental database for coral reef research and conservation

O. Selmoni; G. Lecellier; V. Berteaux‐Lecellier; S. Joost 

Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2023. Vol. Early view. DOI : 10.1111/geb.13657.

Vertical distribution and seasonal dynamics of planktonic cyanobacteria communities in a water column of deep mesotrophic Lake Geneva

A. Carratalà; C. Chappelier; O. Selmoni; A. S. Guillaume; H. E. Chmiel et al. 

Frontiers in Microbiology. 2023. Vol. 14. DOI : 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1295193.

Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

A. Pagani; D. P. Christie; V. Bourdon; C. Wall Gago; S. Joost et al. 

Buildings and Cities. 2023. Vol. 4, num. 1, p. 629 – 649. DOI : 10.5334/bc.298.

Student Projects

Developing a joint species distribution model for plant species in Switzerland using remotely sensed data and computer vision

C. El Khoury 

2023.

2022

Journal Articles

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection clusters: The useful combination of spatiotemporal clustering and genomic analyses

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

Frontiers In Public Health. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 1016169. DOI : 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1016169.

Worldwide analysis of reef surveys sorts coral taxa by associations with recent and past heat stress

O. Selmoni; G. Lecellier; V. Berteaux-Lecellier; S. Joost 

Frontiers In Marine Science. 2022. Vol. 9, p. 948336. DOI : 10.3389/fmars.2022.948336.

The neighborhood environment and its association with the spatio-temporal footprint of tobacco consumption and changes in smoking-related behaviors in a Swiss urban area

J. R. Vallarta-Robledo; P. Marques-Vidal; J. L. Sandoval; D. De Ridder; E. Schaffner et al. 

Health & Place. 2022. Vol. 76, p. 102845. DOI : 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102845.

Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions

N. Romano; P. Ranacher; S. Bachmann; S. Joost 

Journal of Linguistic Geography. 2022. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 11 – 22. DOI : 10.1017/jlg.2021.12.

Association of neighbourhood disadvantage and individual socioeconomic position with all-cause mortality: a longitudinal multicohort analysis

A. I. Ribeiro; S. Fraga; M. Severo; M. Kelly-Irving; C. Delpierre et al. 

Lancet Public Health. 2022. Vol. 7, num. 5, p. E447 – E457. DOI : 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00036-6.

Geographic clusters of objectively measured physical activity and the characteristics of their built environment in a Swiss urban area

J. R. Vallarta-Robledo; S. Joost; M. A. V. Ruas; C. Gubelmann; P. Vollenweider et al. 

Plos One. 2022. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. e0252255. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0252255.

Specchio-COVID19 cohort study: a longitudinal follow-up of SARS-CoV-2 serosurvey participants in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland

H. Baysson; F. Pennachio; A. Wisniak; M. E. Zabella; N. Pullen et al. 

Bmj Open. 2022. Vol. 12, num. 1, p. e055515. DOI : 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055515.

Student Projects

Spatial analysis of fish multi-components biodiversity in the Bay of Biscay: A comparison between environmental DNA and scientific trawling

P. Veron 

2022.

Un système d’information géographique pour l’évaluation des mesures de promotion de la santé dans les communes vaudoises

G. Salamin 

2022.

2021

Journal Articles

Estimating and predicting snakebite risk in the Terai region of Nepal through a high-resolution geospatial and One Health approach

C. Ochoa; M. Pittavino; S. B. Martins; G. Alcoba; I. Bolon et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2021. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 23868. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-021-03301-z.

Evaluating urban greening scenarios for urban heat mitigation: a spatially explicit approach

M. Bosch; M. Locatelli; P. Hamel; R. P. Remme; R. Jaligot et al. 

Royal Society Open Science. 2021. Vol. 8, num. 12, p. 202174. DOI : 10.1098/rsos.202174.

Geographic footprints of life expectancy inequalities in the state of Geneva, Switzerland

A. Ladoy; J. R. Vallarta-Robledo; D. De Ridder; J. L. Sandoval; S. Stringhini et al. 

Scientific Reports. 2021. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 23326. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-021-02733-x.

Detection of Spatiotemporal Clusters of COVID-19-Associated Symptoms and Prevention Using a Participatory Surveillance App: Protocol for the @choum Study

D. De Ridder; A. J. Loizeau; J. L. Sandoval; F. Ehrler; M. Perrier et al. 

Jmir Research Protocols. 2021. Vol. 10, num. 10, p. e30444. DOI : 10.2196/30444.

Reviews

The Quest for Genes Involved in Adaptation to Climate Change in Ruminant Livestock

M. M. Passamonti; E. Somenzi; M. Barbato; G. Chillemi; L. Colli et al. 

Animals. 2021. Vol. 11, num. 10, p. 2833. DOI : 10.3390/ani11102833.