I am a psychiatric genetic epidemiologist, interested in understanding and preventing mental illness. My research is highly interdisciplinary, combining methodologies from behavior genetics, epidemiology and longitudinal modelling. Currently, my research focus has three core areas:

1) Longitudinal modeling of mental illness over the life-course: applying novel modeling techniques to better understand how mental health develops with age.
2) Leveraging genetic data to better understand the development of mental illness: using Mendelian randomisation to identify risk factors for mental illness and comparing transmitted and non-transmitted genetic variants to understand the intergenerational transmission of mental illness from parents to children.
3) Identifying predictors of mental illness progression: combining longitudinal modeling of mental illness with genetic causal inference techniques to find robust predictors of favorable outcomes for those with mental illness.