Dayoon Kwon

I am an environmental epidemiologist leveraging 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, examining gene–environment interactions and metabolomic signatures. I also investigated the relationship between diet, the gut microbiome, and Parkinson’s disease.

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