In recent years she has spearheaded the push to collect more accurate and complete data on many exposures during early life periods as PI of the FP7 HELIX (Human Early Life Exposome) project (EC FP7, €8.6M, 2013-17), a large collaborative project involving birth cohorts in 6 European countries and implementing, for the first time, the exposome concept. HELIX constructed a “deep” exposome database with completely comparable biomonitoring data, geospatial data, child health outcome data, and multiple omics signatures, in mothers and children, resulting in the publication of over 40 papers (majority D1), building the methodological basis for analysing many exposures, describing various aspects of the early life exposome (temporal, geographical, social inequalities), linking the exposome to molecular omics markers, and linking the exposome to child health (e.g. lung function: Agier, Lancet Plan Health 2018; blood pressure: Warembourg, JACC 2019; obesity: Vrijheid, EHP 2020). In 2020, she obtained the ATHLETE project (Advancing Tools for Human Early Life-course Exposome Research and Translation (EC H2020, €12M, 2020-2024)), which aims to advance important challenges in exposome research through improved tools, data, and translation.

Finally, as PI of two previous EC FP7 grants, ENRIECO (Environmental Health Risks in European Birth Cohorts) and CHICOS (Developing a Child Cohort Strategy in Europe) she has been instrumental in the building of a network of birth cohorts in Europe, resulting in a framework for data sharing and harmonization across more than 30 European birth cohorts. She continues this work as WP leader in H2020 project LifeCycle that aims to build the EU Child Cohort Network by implementing a FAIR data sharing and analysis platform.