Warwick Lifecourse and Neonatal Group staff profiles

Team lead:	Professor Dieter Wolke
	Dr Marina Mendonça	Dr Sabrina Twilhaar
Research Fellows:	Dr Erkan Alkan	Dr Andres Carnero
	Dr Stefano Perna	Dr Yanlin Zhou
Data Managers:	Kate Evans	Marie Stracke
PhDs candidates:	Yuyao Cheng	Elif Gönen
	Chunxi Liang	Elsie Wu
	Miranda Wong	Xuan Zhao
Project Administrator:	Catherine Johnstone
Honorary Fellow	Dr Ahuti Das Friebel

Alkan, E

Dr Erkan Alkan

Research Fellow
H2.53

erkan dot alkan at warwick dot ac dot uk

IMPROVE Preterm

Bilgen, A

Dr Ayten Bilgin

Honorary Research Fellow
ayten dot bilgin at warwick dot ac dot uk

Cheng, Y

Yuyao Cheng

PhD candidate

1st supervisor: Dr Kirsty Lee

1nd supervisor: Professor Dieter Wolke
Email: yuyao dot cheng at warwick dot ac dot uk

Das Friebel, A

Dr Ahuti Das Friebel

Honorary Research Fellow
Email:ahuti dot das at warwick dot ac dot uk

Project: BEST@38 6

Dr Andres Carnero

Research Fellow

Andres Carnero is a population health researcher whose work aims to characterise and understand the life course trajectories and mechanisms underlying the long-term outcomes of prematurity. After training in clinical medicine in Peru, Andres focused his career on population health research. He has completed advanced quantitative training in epidemiology, demography and biostatistics, with a special focus on analytic methods relevant for perinatal and life course research. Andres has over 15 years of research experience working as an epidemiologist and data analyst, studying various health conditions in Peru, Africa and the UK, during the latter of which he specialised in preterm birth research. In his last post, as a doctoral student at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Andres analysed the shape, heterogeneity and determinants of the school-age trajectories in academic attainment and ADHD symptoms of individuals born extremely preterm, relative to their term-born peers, using data from the EPICure study. Finally, Andres has also over a decade of experience teaching research methodology in postgraduate programmes and undertaking editorial and peer review duties for several scientific journals.

Andres will be joining the Warwick Lifespan and Neonatal Group as a Research Fellow to collaborate with data documentation and coordinate future analyses from the Bavarian Longitudinal Study, and to conduct and contribute to longitudinal analyses aiming to unravel the environmental and genetic pathways leading to resilience and positive long-term outcomes after preterm birth.

Email:andres dot carnero at warwick dot ac dot uk

Project: BEST@38 6

Evans, K

Kate Evans

Research Assistant (Data Manager)
H253
Email: k dot evans dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk

BEST@38 6

Eves, R

Dr Robert Eves

Honorary Research Fellow
Email: r dot eves dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk

Gönen, E

Elif Gonen

PhD candidate

1st supervisor: Dieter Wolke

2nd supervisor: Sabrina Twilhaar

elif dot gonen at warwick dot ac dot uk

BEST@34

Johnstone, C

Catherine Johnstone

Project Administrator and PA to Prof Wolke
H2.53

c dot j dot johnstone at warwick dot ac dot uk

BEST@38 6 R2D2-MH BB2UP

Liang, C

Chunxi Liang

PhD candidate

1st supervisor: Sabrina Twilhaar

2nd Supervisor: Dieter Wolke

Chunxi.Liang@warwick.ac.uk

Mendonca, M

Dr Marina Mendonça

Assistant Professor
H0.28
marina dot mendonca at warwick dot ac dot uk

RECAP-Preterm & IMPROVE Preterm

IMPROVing lifElong health and development for children and adults born very PRETERM – observational studies to enhance randomised trials for comparative effectiveness research