Group leader: Bjarni Jóhann Vilhjálmsson, professor
Bjarni Jóhann Vilhjálmsson is a statistical geneticist who is motivated to leverage large population-scale data to understand the interplay between genetic and environmental factors when determining the causes of disease. He leads a research group at Aarhus University that is focused on developing methods that integrate health registers and large genetic data to understand psychiatric disorders and other diseases. He is the author of LDpred1/2, one of the most cited methods and software for deriving Polygenic risk Scores.
Zhihong Zhu, Senior Researcher
Zhihong Zhu is a Senior Researcher at NCRR, Aarhus University and scientific visitor at PCTG group, University of Queensland.
Florian Privé, Senior Researcher
Florian Privé is a Senior Researcher and data scientist in predictive human genetics at NCRR. He is an R(cpp) enthusiast and the rusersgrenoble founder and a former organizer.
Anders Jespersen, Postdoc
Anders Jespersen has a PhD is psychiatry and now works as a postdoc.
Emil Pedersen, PhD student
Emil Pedersen has a MsC in statistics and will finish his PhD in public health.
Clara Albiñana, PhD student
Clara Albiñana has a MsC in bioinformatics and will finish her PhD in public health.
Jette Steinbach, Research assistant
Jette Steinbach has a MsC in statistics and works as a research assistant.
Menno Witteveen, Research assistant
Menno Witteveen has worked as a data scientist at Expedia Group and now works as a research assistant.
Ole Hansen, Research assistant
Ole Hansen has a MsC in bioinformatics and now works as a research assistant.
Zeynep Yilmaz, Senior Researcher
Mohamed Abdulkadir, Postdoc
Liselotte v. Petersen, Senior Researcher
Doug Speed, Professor
Christopher Hübel, Researcher