Julia Debik

Julia Debik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), with a dual research role at the Musculoskeletal Research Group and CIMORe. She holds a PhD in Medical Technology and a Master of Science in Industrial Mathematics from NTNU, combining computational expertise with biomedical research.

• Academic Roles: Associate Professor (Onsager Fellow - AI and Health)
• Departments: Public Health and Nursing, Circulation and Medical Imaging
• Collaborations: National Network for Breast Cancer Research, Nordic Metabolomics Society, Metabolomics Society

Research Focus: Integrating machine learning with metabolomics to uncover breast cancer risk factors, treatment response, and prognostic signatures. Her work emphasizes NMR-based metabolic profiling, biobank utilization (HUNT2, UK Biobank), and sample handling standardization (freeze-thaw cycles, delayed centrifugation).

Publication Trends: Over 15 recent articles focus on metabolomic-biomarker discovery for breast cancer, circadian exercise effects, and technical validation of NMR platforms. Key subfields include lipoprotein associations, multi-omics integration, and AI-driven analysis of spatial -omics data.

Scientific Contributions:

• Onsager Fellowship in AI and Health
• Key collaborator in HUNT biobank studies
• International presentations at Metabolomics Society conferences
• Developer of machine learning frameworks for multi-cancer profiling

Outreach Activities: Regularly participates in public science events like Researchers' Night, delivers lectures on AI and molecular epidemiology, and contributes to popular science communication through initiatives like 'Tumorteltet'.