Prof Michelle Luciano
Personal Chair of Behavioural Genetics
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 3063
- Email: michelle.luciano@ed.ac.uk
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Address
- Street
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Room S26, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Availability
I am available Mon-Thurs, but please email me to schedule a specific time.
Background
I use twin and family modelling to investigate the relative influence of genes and environment on behavior, genome-wide association techniques for gene discovery, plus other analyses to explore the effects of rare and structural genetic variants, gene methylation and biological pathways. I am also interested in the interaction between measured environmental variables with genes.
Undergraduate teaching
Behavioural Genetics Psychology Honours option course.
Office hours:
I am flexible with meetings, so please just drop me an email, knock on my door or phone to organise a time.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Please contact me to discuss any topics related to my research interests.
Current PhD Scholarship
Funded PhD project on prediction of frailty using multi-system data: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/precision-medicine-dtp-multi-system-prediction-of-frailty/?p177055
Postdocs
Anyone looking for a postdoc, this is open to any recent PhD graduates from a UK institution (career breaks allowed). And if you happen to have any reading/language related project ideas, or any ohter proposal in my area, please get in touch!! https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/pdf-scheme/
Current PhD students supervised
- Otto Jutila
- Jonny Flint
- Lucas Perry
- Sam Andres
- Ye Zhang
- Roxana Hofmann
Past PhD students supervised
- Iva Čukić (Research fellow at Liverpool, https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-health/staff/iva-cukic/)
- Bill Chan (Lecturer at Lingnan, https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/en/persons/cheuk-long-chan)
- Lydia Speyer (Lecturer at Lancaster, https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/lydia-speyer(07d136a5-db2d-493f-a3b9-a918991fafc1).html)
- Miles Welstead (Dementia researcher psychologist)
- Emma Waterston (Senior Teaching Co-ordinator, UoE, https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/e-waterston)
- Yuzhan Hang (Researcher at the University of Science and Technology of China)
- Donncha Mullin (Medical doctor in Old Age Psychiatry, NHS Scotland; Honorary Clinical Lecturer, UoE, https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-donncha-mullin)
- Catherine Doust (Teacher)
- Elinor Bridges (Management role in local government)
- Wenlu Wang
Research summary
Environmental and genetic factors contributing to cognition, personality, mood, well-being and brain MRI measures.