I have extensive experience in the development and application of longitudinal methods to gain a better understanding of aging and dementia. I am also interested in harmonization methods for evidence synthesis and reproducible research.

• MSc. Tyler Saunders (2019-) University of Edinburgh. Role: PhD supervisor. (primary)
• Dr. Donncha Mullin (2020-) University of Edinburgh. Role: PhD supervisor. (primary)
• MSc. Jure Mur(2020-) University of Edinburgh. Role: PhD supervisor. (primary)
• MSc. Danni Gadd (2020-) University of Edinburgh. Role: PhD supervisor. (secondary)
• MSc Tiko Yoneda (2018-) University of Victoria. Role: PhD thesis supervisor (secondary)
• MSc. Sarah Gregory (2018-present). University of Edinburgh. Role: PhD supervisor (secondary)
• Dr. Lucy Stirland (2016-2020) University of Edinburgh, Role: PhD supervisor. (primary)
• Dr. Sahan Mendis (2019-) University of Edinburgh, (2019-) Role: PhD supervisor.(secondary)
• MSc. Miles Welstead (2019-) University of Edinburgh Role: PhD supervisor. (secondary)
• MSc. Stina Saunders (2017-present) University of Edinburgh, Role: PhD supervisor (secondary)
• Dr. Jing Liao (2011-2014) University College London, Institute of Epidemiology. Role: PhD Supervisor (secondary)
• Dr. Lan Wen MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge. Role: PhD supervisor (primary)
• Dr. Hinesh Topiwala (2016-2018) University of Edinburgh, Role: MD supervisor.(secondary)
• Ec. Alejandra Marroig Master in Mathematics School of Engineering, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay. Role: PhD supervisor(primary)
• MSc. Amanda Kelly’s,University of Victoria, BC, Canada. (2015) Role: CoSupervisor Masters degree thesis.(secondary)
• MSc. Fernando Massa (2019-) School of Engineering, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay. Role: PhD Supervisor.(primary)
• Dr. Annie Robitaille. Postdoctoral Researcher University of Victoria, BC. Role: Mentor.
• Dr. Zoe Tieges. Early career researcher working in delirium research at the University of Edinburgh. Role: mentor in recently awarded grant ”Advancing understanding of delirium severity: the contribution of domains of the delirium syndrome to outcomes”. Funder: NIDUS, Network for Investigation of Delirium across US
• Dr. Andrea Zammit. Assistant Professor, the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Role: Mentor.
• Dr. Teddy Cosco, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge. Role: Statistical advisor for PhD.
• MSc. Brandy Ma’s MPhil thesis Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge. Role: Statistical advisor for Master’s thesis.
• MSc. Ayesha Sajjad’s MPhil thesis Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge. Role: Statistical advisor for Master’s thesis.

• AAIC. Invited presented. July 2021.
• World Dementia Council Invited panelist in Prevention Workshop. 2021. Feb 9th.
• Scotland Dementia Research Consortium Annual Conference 2020
• Early Detection and Prevention of Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Findings from Major European Collaborative and Research Initiatives AIGG-ER Gothenburg, 2019
• Lifestyle risk factors for dementia. Invited speaker. SCOBIC consortium. University of Glasgow, January 2019.
• Terminal decline: what we don’t know yet. Invited speaker. Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, October 2018.
• Multi cohort work: lessons from IALSA, Invited talk at CLOSER methodology series. Manchester, October 2018.
• Disease Modelling Workshop, EPAD. Edinburgh. Meeting of all modellers affiliated to IMI funded projects, Role: presenter. October 2017.
• Gerontological Society of America. Symposia chair and presenter, Annual meetings 2011-2018.
• The Prevent Study: A Prospective Cohort Study to Identify Mid-life Biomarkers of Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.European Congress of Psychiatry, Florence 2017.
• Selecting time in study versus age as a metric of time to model change, Invited talk at Closer methodology series. London, May 2015.
• Modelling cognitive decline in a multi study approach, Invited talk at Closer workshop in Society for Longitudinal and Life course studies conference Lausanne, October 2014.
• Mortality and cognitive change, IALSA symposium at Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington November 2014. Symposium sponsored by GSA’s Methods Section.
• Challenges in multi study work, IALSA symposium at Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington November 2014. Symposium sponsored by GSA’s Methods Section.
• What do we really know about the onset of faster rate of decline?, Nordic Congress of Gerontology. May 2014 (Invited speaker within IALSA symposim).
• Friday Harbour Advanced Psychometrics Workshop. Co-leader (with Prof. S. Hofer) of working group ”Changes in health and cognition”.
• Change point models in ageing research. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. March 2013. (Invited speaker).
• Longitudinal Data Analysis course. Universidad de la Rep´ublica, School of Medicine, Montevideo. December 2012.
• Longitudinal Data Analysis course. Universidad de la Rep´ublica, School of Engineering, Montevideo. December 2011.
• Education is associated with a delayed onset of terminal decline World Congress of Epidemiology. August 2011.
• Assessing the processing speed hypothesis using Structural Equation Modelling Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience . September 2011. (Invited speaker).
• Structural Equation Modelling: a valuable tool for research Centre for Diet and Activity research. October 2011. (Invited speaker).
• Halcyon and IALSA annual meeting. June 2011. West Dean College. (Invited speaker).
• Royal Statistical Society Feb 2011, RSS Medical Section on Structural Equation Models. (Invited speaker).
• Annual Conference of the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics, Ottawa, Canada 2011
• Education is associated with a delayed onset of terminal decline World Congress of Epidemiology, within the symposium ”The epidemiology of cognitive research in ageing”, Edinburgh, 2011.
• Second Mplus UK Users meeting. Manchester March 2011.
• Halcyon Meeting. Discussant on Cognition Section. Feb 2011
• International Workshop of Statistical Modelling 2010. Glasgow.
• Annual Conference of the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics, Prague, Greece, 2009.
• Young Researchers Forum, MRS BSU, September 2009.
• Institute of Public Health Open Day, June 2009
• Mplus UK Users meeting, July 2009, March 2011
• Annual Conference of the International Society of Clinical Biostatistics, Alexandria, Greece, 2007.
• Graduate students seminar, Warwick University, 2006.
• Mplus discussion group. Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Co organiser and presenter at several meetings.
• Latent Variables in Health Sciences, Italy, 2006.
• Friday Harbor Psychometric Workshop, Seattle, USA 2005.
• Research Students Conference, Glasgow, 2005.
• Meeting of the Bernoulli Society, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2000.
• Latin-American Congress of Mathematical Statistics, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1996.

Teaching activities
• Analytical Methods for Dementia Research Alzheimer’s Summer School. University of Edinburgh, 2019.
• Longitudinal Data Analysis. Amsterdam UVMC, October 2018.
• Growth Mixture Models using Mplus. Penn State University, September 2018.
• Statistical models in dementia research. Summer School Methodologies in Alzheimer’s Research, Edinburgh, June 2018.
• Longitudinal models in ageing and dementia research. Summer School Methodologies in Alzheimer’s Research, Edinburgh, June 2017.
• Understanding cognitive change. UK Dementias Platform, University of Oxford, September 2016.
• Metrics of time in longitudinal studies. ADC clinicians meeting, Baltimore, October 2016.
• Multistate Modelling workshop, IALSA workshop Edinburgh and Amsterdam, 2016.
• Examination of physical and cognitive decline using a coordinated analytical approach, IALSA workshop. Portland, US, February 2015.
• Multivariate Models of Change. Invited pre-conference workshop at Royal Statistical Society Sponsored Conference Leeds, UK March 2015.
• Longitudinal Data Analysis. UCL course, June 2014 and 2013.
• Longitudinal Data Analysis using Mplus. International Health Data Linkage pre conference Workshop, Vancouver April 2014.
• Methodological Issues in Replication Studies. Invited workshop Annual meeting of the Society of Child Development Research San Diego, US, September 2014.
• Coordinated Analysis of Longitudinal Data. Invited workshop Annual meeting of the Society of Child Development ResearchUS, September 2014.
• Longitudinal Data Analysis. UCL, July 2014.
• Shared Parameter Models. School of Engineering, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay, June 2014.
• Longitudinal Analysis Workshop. International Health Data Linkage Conference and Workshop, Vancouver, May 2014.
• Random Effects Models. MRC LHA Unit at UCL, June 2014.
• Growth Mixture Models in the Context of Multi Study Research. Pre-conference workshop Nordic Congress of Gerontology. May 2014.
• SMAART. Statistical Methods in Ageing, Analytical Research Methods. University of Victoria, BC, Canada. May 2011.
• Several mathematics and statistics courses. From 1990-2000, I delivered, organised, prepared material and set up exams of a range of courses including: Linear Algebra, Analysis, Statistics, Biostatistics, Topology, Differential Equations and others.