Han Cao

Dr. Han Cao is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, affiliated with the Emmy-Noether Research Group in Translational Bioinformatics in Psychiatry. Their work bridges computational methods with psychiatric research, focusing on genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders.

• Current affiliation: Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
• Role: Postdoctoral Researcher (RG Emmy-Noether Gruppe)

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics approaches to psychiatric disorders
• Machine learning in biological psychiatry
• Neurogenetic risk profiling (Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, psychosis)
• Epigenetic and neuroimaging biomarkers

Publication Trends: Recent work highlights the application of computational models to psychiatric genomics, with a focus on polygenic risk transferability, epigenetic signatures in schizophrenia, and machine learning frameworks for biological psychiatry. Collaborative efforts include multimodal analyses of psychosis comorbidity and reward processing in psychotic disorders.

Research Group: Part of the Emmy-Noether Group for Translational Bioinformatics in Psychiatry at ZI Mannheim, contributing to interdisciplinary studies linking computational methods with clinical neuroscience.