Statistical and psychiatric geneticist at Aarhus University
Bjarni Vilhjalmsson
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Great work by the amazing Fenfen Ge on how suicide attempts and suicides have surprisingly different risk factors.
There are 3+ postdocs positions available (for 3 years w possible 1-year extension). Research areas include:
- Genetic risk prediction
- Causal inference
- Machine learning applications
- Survival analysis
These are collaborative projects with researchers in Denmark and at University of Oxford.
📢 Applications open for the SMARTbiomed Summer School!
🧠 Learn Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics & ML in R
📍 June 23–27 at the stunning Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark
⏳ Apply by April 19 — limited spots available!
👩🔬 For PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers
🔗 smartbiomed.dk/news-and-eve...
Massive multi-ancestry GWAS resource for 1,167 clinical traits & diseases in 6 global biobanks (n=1,789,365)
👉29,139 locus-trait pairs
👉2,624 non-overlapping loci across the genome
👉associated with 6 traits each (median)
👉colocalization across traits for 72% of loci [1/3]
Aarhus Denmark has high quality of life, and consistently ranks as one of the best cities to live in the world happy-city-index.com (housing is more affordable than in Copenhagen 😉). Denmark has good funding opportunities in Academia. #AcademicSky #MedSky #HigherEd #academia #research #science
Potential Main or Co-Supervisors include:
Naomi Wray (Oxford), Peter Visscher (Oxford), Erin Gabriel (KU), Preben B Mortensen (AU), @eagerbo.bsky.social
(AU), @privefl.bsky.social (AU), Thomas Gerds (KU), Julie Dreier (AU), and others.
Multiple Postdoc Positions available in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, or Statistical Genetics (deadline April 15)
Join an International team at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed, Aarhus, Denmark!
#Postdoc #Epidemiology #StatisticalGenetics #Biostatistics
👉 international.au.dk/about/profil...
What does it take to launch a precision health study? A bold vision, an exceptional team, a supportive ecosystem, and perseverance!
We are proud to introduce the Danish Precision Health Initiative: a resource built to drive precision cardiometabolic health research for years to come. delphi.ku.dk
Mapping the heritability of disease: a nationwide study @natcomms.nature.com
Group poster today from @jaredgm.bsky.social on genetics of perinatal depression. Jared is a DepGenAfrica postdoc - he is looking for collaborators with African PND data also. Visit poster P018.085D today at 4pm! #eshg2025
