

The postdoctoral researcher will be employed at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, which focuses on patient care, teaching and research activities to improve child and adolescent mental health.Ī key aim of the department is to study the frequency, determinants and course of child psychiatric disorders.

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Conducting groundbreaking work, pushing boundaries and leading the way in research, education, and healthcare. Neeltje van Haren, Professor of Brain Development and Psychopathology as well as Coordinator of FAMILY.Ī healthy population and excellence in healthcare through research and education.This is what Erasmus MC stands for. Charlotte Cecil, Director of the inDEPTH Lab and Team Leader of the Biological Psychopathology research line in Generation R, and Prof.dr. Alexander Neumann, senior researcher in GenR, Dr. The postdoctoral researcher will primarily be embedded within GenR, a unique Rotterdam-based birth cohort that started in 2002 and has been following the lives of nearly 10,000 children across development. The postdoctoral researcher will be responsible for data cleaning and analysis, write-up and publication of results. The intention is to employ traditional statistical approaches, as well as innovative machine-learning and genetic trio design methods. The multi-center design, large sample size and wealth of exposure and outcome data will allow the postdoctoral researcher great power and flexibility to construct and test transmission load scores. The postdoctoral researcher will have the unique opportunity to access data from the largest neonatal epigenetic cohorts in the world encompassing circa 10,000 participants with epigenetic profiles. The project is part of a large European-funded consortium (FAMILY, ), involving multiple national and international institutions and the analysis of data from a range of general and high-risk human cohorts. Test for sex-differences, especially resulting from X-chromosome inactivation.Examine whether the transmission load score is stable over time and predicts the development of psychiatric problems.

