Irene van Kamp, PhD, was educated at the University of Groningen and Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and has a background in sociology, psychology and epidemiology. She has broad interest and experience in working in interdisciplinary teams and policy preparing research. Since 2000 she has worked as a senior researcher and project manager at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (Netherlands), with an assignment in the field of urban environmental quality and quality of life, and specific expertise in the field of environmental noise. She is and has supervised several students (PhD and MSc) working on the health impacts of noise and electromagnetic fields, the efficacy of noise interventions, risk perception and risk governance. She was co-author of a review of interventions in the framework of the WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines. Current projects include the health effects of wind turbine sound and the health effects of noise and vibration from rail traffic. In 2020, she was granted a Horizon 2020 project on early environmental quality and life-course mental health effects (Equal- Life). At RIVM, she works closely together with acousticians, physicists and GIS experts. Irene van Kamp is (co) author of around 150 publications and five book chapters. In 2012, she was granted the Dutch Golden Decibel award for her scientific work in the noise domain, and the ICBEN achievement award in 2020.