معرفی
Nikolas Baya is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, working with Dr. Duncan Palmer at the Big Data Institute. He is a member of the Lindgren/Palmer research group, focusing on genetically-unexpected phenotypes in the UK Biobank.
His educational background includes:
- Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University
- DPhil in Genomic Medicine and Statistics from the University of Oxford, co-supervised by Prof. Cecilia Lindgren and Prof. Simon Myers
Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for two years in the Neale Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
His research spans Complex disease, polygenic scores, obesity, outliers, biomarkers, genome/exome-wide association studies, and rare variant burden, emphasizing statistical genomics and large-scale biobank data analysis to unravel genetic mechanisms of complex traits.
He is actively affiliated with the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and the Big Data Institute, contributing to collaborative genomic medicine research through advanced computational methodologies.
