With a medical background and an MSc in Nutrition, I used to work for the Determinants of Adolescent Social Well-being and Health (DASH) cohort study and the Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study (BIGCS). My previous research involves the association of nutrition/dietary behaviours with physical and mental health in adolescence and the perinatal period. My PhD research is to look at the causal effect of maternal vegetarian diet during pregnancy on offspring health by applying a range of causal inference techniques such as Mendelian Randomisation (MR), paternal negative control, within-sibling and cross-cohort comparisons, epigenome-wide association study (EWAS), and metabolome-wide association study (MWAS). I have also been working on two mini-projects since Year 1 - one to investigate the impact of maternal coffee consumption on perinatal health and the other to explore the causal relationship between plasma proteome and Alzheimer's disease.