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.
I co-chair the UK Specific Learning Difficulties Network (https://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/learning-difficulties/).
Undergraduate teaching
Behavioural Genetics Psychology Honours option course - not running 2025/26 as I am on research leave.
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 PhD or postdoc topics related to my research interests.
Current PhD students supervised
- Otto Jutila
- Jonny Flint
- Lucas Perry
- Sam Andres
- Ye Zhang
- Roxana Hofmann
- Ye Zeng
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.