Dr. Ashtyn Areal is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Medicine (IMM) at the Karolinska Institutet after completing her Doctor of Public Health specialising in environmental epidemiology at the IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine. She studied for a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and an M.Sc. in Epidemiology and an M.Sc. in Global Health at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. She is currently investigating associations between indoor temperature and health in Sweden.