Xuxi Zhang

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Xuxi Zhang was born on February 17 th 1991, in Zibo, Shandong Province, China. After graduating from Shandong Zibo Shiyan High School in 2009, she started her bachelor studies with a major in Biomedical English, in Health Science Center of Peking University, Beijing, China. During her bachelor studies, Xuxi studied a second major in Intellectual Property, in Law School of Peking University. In June 2014, she graduated with a Bachelor in Science as well as a Bachelor in Law. In the same year, she continued to study at Peking University as a Master student in School of Public Health. In June 2017, she obtained her master degree in Public Health. In September 2017, she started her PhD project at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Xuxi received a fellowship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to perform her PhD project in the Netherlands. From 2017 to 2020, she worked under the supervision of Prof. Hein Raat and Dr. Siok Swan Tan in the Department of Public Health. Her research mainly focused on healthy ageing and health promotion in people with frailty and chronic conditions, the results of which are presented in the present thesis. In the future, Xuxi determines to develop her career in academia and devote herself to the research to improve population health, especially for older people and people with chronic conditions. A 253 About the author