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Professor Hyppönen is the Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute. She was recruited to the University of South Australia as the Professor in Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology in 2013, following 12 years at the University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (London, UK).
She also holds appointments as a Honorary Professor at the University College London, Senior Principal Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and as an Adjunct Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Tampere, Finland. Professor Hyppönen has an interdisciplinary academic background, with academic... Read more
About me
Professor Hyppönen is the Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health at the University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute. She was recruited to the University of South Australia as the Professor in Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology in 2013, following 12 years at the University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (London, UK).
She also holds appointments as a Honorary Professor at the University College London, Senior Principal Research Fellow at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) and as an Adjunct Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Tampere, Finland. Professor Hyppönen has an interdisciplinary academic background, with academic qualifications in epidemiology, medical statistics, nutrition and public health.
Professor Hyppönen has a H-factor of 70, having been cited over 18,000 times in the past five years only. She has authored more than 160 high-profile refereed publications and several book chapters. She leads the Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology group which has a focus on using genetic tools to inform on dietary and lifestyle guidelines for optimal health. She has a long-term research interest in life-course and intergenerational epidemiology, and an extensive track record in gene and risk factor discovery. Her current interests are related to implementing phenomewide analyses and systems epidemiology approaches to establish effective strategies for disease prediction and prevention.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of Tampere
Master of Science (Health Sciences) University of Kuopio, Finland
Master of Science (Medical Statistics) London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Predicting and Preventing Ovarian Cancer: a machine learning approach, MRFF- 2020 PHCRI - Primary Health Care Research, 01/06/2021 - 31/08/2025
The dark side of vitamin D supplementation, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2022
Machine learning to predict and prevent cancer, Tour de Cure Ltd, 01/07/2019 - 31/12/2022
Whole-genome multivariate reaction norm model for complex traits, ARC - Discovery Projects, 17/06/2019 - 16/06/2022
Identifying pathways to dementia: a large scale genetic study, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2021
Nutritional factors and cognitive function: examining evidence for a causal association, The Judith Jane Mason and Harold Stannett Williams Memorial Foundation, 01/03/2015 - 31/08/2016
Establishing the causal impact of tobacco use on health outcomes using mendelian randomisation, University College London, 01/01/2014 - 30/09/2014
Tour de Cure (2019) Machine learning to predict and prevent cancer
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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2019 |
Open access
20
20
148
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2019 |
Open access
151
156
2539
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2019 |
Open access
67
65
225
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2019 |
Open access
31
30
641
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2015 |
Open access
2396
2398
690
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2017 |
2
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2010 |
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2022 |
Open access
1
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2022 |
Open access
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2021 |
1
2
28
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2021 |
Open access
2
2
18
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2021 |
3
729
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2021 |
1
1
4
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2021 |
4
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2021 |
Open access
1
2
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2021 |
6
8
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2021 |
Open access
4
4
32
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2021 |
Open access
5
4
81
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2021 |
Open access
1
1
1
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2021 |
4
5
1002
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2021 |
11
10
122
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2021 |
Open access
2
2
529
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2021 |
Open access
3
2
400
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2020 |
2
2
1
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2020 |
Open access
1
1
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2020 |
Open access
7
7
110
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2020 |
Open access
3
4
5
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2020 |
Open access
28
27
76
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2020 |
Open access
19
23
152
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2020 |
Open access
13
14
178
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2020 |
Open access
9
10
27
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2020 |
Open access
4
4
1
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2020 |
Open access
19
19
35
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2020 |
Open access
2
3
42
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2020 |
Open access
5
3
31
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2019 |
Open access
33
36
84
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2019 |
Open access
24
25
51
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2019 |
7
8
10
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2019 |
Open access
18
18
128
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2019 |
Open access
16
17
9
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2019 |
Open access
20
20
148
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2019 |
Open access
194
199
381
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2019 |
Open access
19
2
75
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2019 |
Open access
151
156
2539
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2019 |
27
25
6
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2019 |
10
14
3
|
2019 |
Open access
17
17
10
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2019 |
Open access
11
8
9
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2019 |
Open access
6
4
1
|
2019 |
Open access
67
65
225
|
2019 |
Open access
162
177
854
|
2019 |
Open access
31
30
641
|
2019 |
11
12
1
|
2018 |
Open access
91
91
44
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2018 |
Open access
39
39
13
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2018 |
Open access
34
35
3
|
2018 |
Open access
170
177
63
|
2018 |
Open access
18
22
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2018 |
Open access
9
13
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2018 |
Open access
16
21
31
|
2018 |
Open access
731
742
2042
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2018 |
Open access
22
1
|
2018 |
Open access
27
26
157
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2017 |
Open access
22
20
5
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2017 |
Open access
178
181
111
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2017 |
Open access
30
29
25
|
2017 |
Open access
22
22
2
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2017 |
Open access
21
19
5
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2017 |
Open access
59
55
167
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2016 |
Open access
31
132
648
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2016 |
Open access
9
9
1
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2016 |
Open access
3
3
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2016 |
Open access
187
180
76
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2016 |
Open access
235
243
332
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2016 |
24
25
|
2016 |
Open access
7
8
1
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2016 |
Open access
42
42
118
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2016 |
Open access
15
15
2
|
2016 |
Open access
524
31
29
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2016 |
Open access
65
49
18
|
2016 |
Open access
483
467
731
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2016 |
Open access
623
639
1159
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2016 |
Open access
94
97
13
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2016 |
Open access
217
212
151
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2016 |
Open access
145
141
424
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2016 |
Open access
76
80
12
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2016 |
Open access
24
23
1
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2016 |
Open access
336
328
893
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2015 |
Open access
150
148
794
|
2015 |
Open access
53
55
3
|
2015 |
Open access
17
18
1
|
2015 |
3
8
1
|
2015 |
Open access
69
68
34
|
2015 |
Open access
2396
2398
690
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2015 |
Open access
19
20
12
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2015 |
Open access
33
14
73
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2015 |
Open access
823
832
405
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2015 |
Open access
203
206
47
|
2015 |
Open access
7
7
2
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2014 |
Open access
63
67
4
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2014 |
Open access
425
378
386
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2014 |
Open access
108
108
2
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2014 |
Open access
21
20
1
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2014 |
Open access
125
121
34
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2014 |
2
2
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2014 |
Open access
39
40
59
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2014 |
Open access
90
82
18
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2014 |
22
23
1
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2014 |
Open access
255
251
117
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2014 |
Open access
9
11
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2014 |
Open access
20
20
1
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2014 |
Open access
1127
1105
567
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2013 |
Open access
8
6
2
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2013 |
Open access
399
403
42
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2013 |
4
4
4
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2013 |
91
81
8
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2013 |
Open access
23
21
3
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2013 |
Open access
126
123
20
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2013 |
Open access
565
550
128
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2013 |
Open access
152
137
82
|
2013 |
Open access
218
218
39
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2013 |
Open access
41
43
16
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2013 |
41
36
12
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2013 |
Open access
249
255
47
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2013 |
Open access
28
29
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2013 |
Open access
6
6
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2013 |
Open access
32
31
2
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2013 |
Open access
622
534
175
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2013 |
Open access
1723
1533
135
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2013 |
Open access
29
25
1
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2012 |
Open access
79
78
8
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2012 |
Open access
66
66
2
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2012 |
Open access
258
251
49
|
2012 |
Open access
105
97
61
|
2012 |
Open access
87
100
33
|
2012 |
66
66
|
2012 |
Open access
80
86
22
|
2012 |
Open access
429
402
356
|
2012 |
Open access
51
49
|
2012 |
19
19
3
|
2011 |
71
67
|
2011 |
Open access
182
124
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2011 |
Open access
245
379
|
2011 |
Open access
213
198
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2011 |
Open access
5
4
|
2011 |
Open access
16
14
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2011 |
31
27
|
2011 |
Open access
386
361
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2011 |
Open access
49
47
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2011 |
Open access
75
|
2011 |
29
28
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2011 |
24
23
|
2010 |
Open access
210
206
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2010 |
Open access
56
54
|
2010 |
Open access
14
14
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2010 |
Open access
179
176
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2010 |
Open access
51
46
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2010 |
Open access
44
43
|
2010 |
Open access
82
78
|
2010 |
62
58
|
2010 |
Open access
1200
1138
|
2009 |
103
92
|
2009 |
Open access
112
103
|
2009 |
Open access
197
185
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2008 |
Open access
304
284
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2008 |
685
302
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2008 |
248
236
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External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Aarhus University | DENMARK |
Amtssygehuset i Gentofte | DENMARK |
Ashwell Associates | UNITED KINGDOM |
Barts and London School of Medicine and Dentistry | UNITED KINGDOM |
BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre | UNITED KINGDOM |
Birmingham Children's Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospitals | DENMARK |
Bispebjerg Hospital | DENMARK |
Blizard Institute | UNITED KINGDOM |
Boston Children's Hospital | UNITED STATES |
Boston University | UNITED STATES |
British Nutrition Foundation | UNITED KINGDOM |
Campden BRI | UNITED KINGDOM |
Cancer Voices | AUSTRALIA |
Catholic University of Leuven | BELGIUM |
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics | UNITED KINGDOM |
Childrens Hospital at Westmead | AUSTRALIA |
Childrens Hospital of Phiadelphia | UNITED STATES |
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | UNITED STATES |
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | UNITED STATES |
Churchill Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Copenhagen University Hospital | DENMARK |
Creighton Endocrinology | UNITED STATES |
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation) | AUSTRALIA |
Dartmouth College | UNITED STATES |
DSM Biotechnology Center | NETHERLANDS |
DSM Nutritional Products | UNITED STATES |
Erasmus MC | NETHERLANDS |
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Flinders Medical Centre | AUSTRALIA |
Foundation for the Community Control of Hereditary Diseases | HUNGARY |
Fudan University | CHINA |
German Research Center for Environmental Health | GERMANY |
Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD | NETHERLANDS |
Harborview Medical Center, United States | AUSTRALIA |
Harvard School of Public Health | UNITED STATES |
Harvard University | UNITED STATES |
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | GERMANY |
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | UNITED KINGDOM |
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | UNITED STATES |
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
Institut for Sygdomsforebyggelse | DENMARK |
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland | FINLAND |
Institute of Child Health | INDIA |
Institute of Child Health London | UNITED KINGDOM |
Institute of Health Sciences | BRAZIL |
Institute of Metabolic Science | UNITED KINGDOM |
iPSYCH, The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research | DENMARK |
IRCCS Foundation | ITALY |
Islamic Azad University | IRAN |
Johns Hopkins University | UNITED STATES |
Karolinska Institute | SWEDEN |
King's College London | UNITED KINGDOM |
KINGS COLLEGE, Vic | AUSTRALIA |
Kuopio University Hospital | FINLAND |
Leiden University | NETHERLANDS |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
Loughborough University | UNITED KINGDOM |
McGill University | CANADA |
Medical Research Council | UNITED KINGDOM |
Medical University of Graz | AUSTRIA |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
National Institute for Health and Welfare | FINLAND |
National Institutes of Health | UNITED STATES |
New York University | UNITED STATES |
Newcastle University, United Kingdom | UNITED KINGDOM |
Northwestern University | UNITED STATES |
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | UNITED STATES |
Norwegian Institute of Public Health | NORWAY |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology | NORWAY |
Oulu University Hospital | FINLAND |
Oulun Yliopisto | FINLAND |
Oxford University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Peking University | CHINA |
Peking University Health Science Centre | CHINA |
Peninsula Medical School | UNITED KINGDOM |
Pennsylvania State University | UNITED STATES |
Private Individual | AUSTRALIA |
Queen Mary University of London | UNITED KINGDOM |
Queen's Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Research Centre for Prevention and Health | DENMARK |
Royal Liverpool University Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Royal London Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
Ruhr University Bochum | GERMANY |
Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset | SWEDEN |
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
Semmelweis University | HUNGARY |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University | CHINA |
Shiraz University | IRAN |
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) | AUSTRALIA |
South Dakota State University | UNITED STATES |
Southern Cross University | AUSTRALIA |
Statens Seruminstitut | DENMARK |
Tulane University | UNITED STATES |
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health | UNITED KINGDOM |
UCL Institute of Child Health | UNITED KINGDOM |
Umeå University | SWEDEN |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra | SPAIN |
University College Cork | IRELAND |
University College Hospital | UNITED KINGDOM |
University College London | UNITED KINGDOM |
University College London Institute of Child Health | UNITED KINGDOM |
University Hospital Frankfurt | GERMANY |
University Hospital of Zurich | SWITZERLAND |
University Medical Center, Rotterdam | NETHERLANDS |
University of Aberdeen | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
University of Auckland | NEW ZEALAND |
University of Bergen | NORWAY |
University of Birmingham | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Bologna | ITALY |
University of Brighton | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Bristol | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
University of Colorado | UNITED STATES |
University of Copenhagen | DENMARK |
University of Duisburg-Essen | GERMANY |
University of East Anglia | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Eastern Finland | FINLAND |
University of Edinburgh | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Exeter | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Glasgow | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Groningen | NETHERLANDS |
University of Hamburg | GERMANY |
University of Helsinki | FINLAND |
University of Iceland | ICELAND |
University of Ioannina | GREECE |
University of Lausanne | SWITZERLAND |
University of Liverpool | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Manchester | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Michigan | UNITED STATES |
University of Milan | ITALY |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | UNITED STATES |
University of New England | AUSTRALIA |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | UNITED STATES |
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | UNITED STATES |
University of Oulu | FINLAND |
University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Pennsylvania | UNITED STATES |
University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
University of Reading | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Regensburg | GERMANY |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Southern California | UNITED STATES |
University of Southern Denmark | DENMARK |
University of Surrey | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
University of Tampere | FINLAND |
University of Tartu | ESTONIA |
University of Texas | UNITED STATES |
University of Toronto | CANADA |
University of Tromsø | NORWAY |
University of Turku | FINLAND |
University of Wageningen | NETHERLANDS |
University of Warwick | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Westminster | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Zurich | SWITZERLAND |
Uppsala University | SWEDEN |
Versys Clinics, Human Reproduction Institute | HUNGARY |
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | NETHERLANDS |
Vrije University | NETHERLANDS |
VU University Medical Center | NETHERLANDS |
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics | UNITED KINGDOM |
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | UNITED KINGDOM |
Western Sydney University | AUSTRALIA |
Yasuj University of Medical Sciences | IRAN |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Adjunct Professor in EpidemiologyUniversity of Tampere, Finland |
2017 |
Honorary ProfessorUniversity College London |
2017 |
Principal Research FellowSouth Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) |
2017 |
Project Grant: The dark side of vitamin D supplementationNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2017 |
Project GrantNational Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) |
2016 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Data-driven analysis to predict and prevent cancer: A large-scale study using UK biobank | Current |
Diet and health: exploring phenome-wide associations and gene-environment interaction using a machine learning approach | Current |
Enhancing genomic analyses of complex diseases through population diversity | Current |
Investigation of alcohol use and its consequences on human health | Current |
Lipids, statins and brain health: A large-scale study | Current |
Nutritional genomics and neurological disease (epilepsy) | Current |
Predicting brain health and dementia: a machine learning approach | Current |
Vitamin D, calcium and cardiovascular risk: a large scale study | Current |
Machine learning for predictive modelling and risk factor discovery in health and wealth | Completed |
Pain and depression: exploring gene-environment interactions and the role of stress | Completed |
Physical activity, APOE genotype and cognitive function: exploring gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank | Completed |
Relationship between obesity and depression: evidence from observational and genetic studies | Completed |