I conduct research in psychiatric epidemiology and psychiatric genetics, with a particular focus on eating disorders. I have a background in medicine and neuroscience, and hold a PhD in Health Science from Aarhus University, where I studied visual processing in the mouse brain using in vivo two-photon imaging.
I use Danish registers and genetic data to study psychiatric disorders across the life course. In eating disorders, I study childhood growth in those who later develop an eating disorder, and how age at diagnosis relates to comorbidity. In psychiatric genetics, I study assortative mating across psychiatric disorders in iPSYCH, and how reduced fertility shapes its genetic signatures. Ultimately, I hope to contribute knowledge that improves our understanding and early identification of psychiatric disorders.
My primary responsibility is research, from study design and data management to statistical analysis and publication. I am part of the PEARL research group led by Liselotte Vogdrup Petersen and Zeynep Yilmaz, and I work with large-scale register and genotype data, including the iPSYCH cohort. My methodological work includes statistical modelling of growth trajectories and population-genetic simulation.
