Dayoon Kwon

I am an environmental epidemiologist who uses multi-omics data to investigate how environmental exposures shape human health across the life course.

At Stanford, I develop epigenetic biomarkers and aging clocks to understand how early-life exposures influence long-term health trajectories.

My doctoral work at UCLA focused on air pollution and Parkinson’s disease, including gene–environment interactions and metabolomic signatures. I also studied how diet and the gut microbiome relate to Parkinson’s disease.

Before UCLA, at Columbia, I quantified biological aging from blood-based clinical biomarkers and developed the BioAge R package, an accessible tool for calculating biological age across diverse datasets.