Speaker
Dr. Silvia Alemany
Principal Investigator, Research Group of Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions, Institute of Research of Valle d 'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain
Biography
I am psychologist with experience in the fields of Psychiatric Genetics and Environmental Epidemiology. I have experience analyzing several environmental factors such as child maltreatment, paracetamol use during pregnancy, or air pollution. I analyze the genetic basis of complex traits and diseases such as cognition or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using different methodologies such as polygenic risk scores, genome-wide and epigenome-wide association studies. I am very interested in understanding gene-environment relationships and interactions.