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Associate professor

Floriaan Schmidt

Floriaan Schmidt has received training in public health, clinical epidemiology, and mathematics. Floriaan completed a PhD on methods for personalized medicine with the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Following his PhD, he accepted a position with University College London (UCL).

Currently, Floriaan has a joined position with Amsterdam UMC and UCL. His research focusses on developing and applying human genetics for drug target validation (Schmidt, Nature Communications 2020 & 2021). Additionally, Floriaan conducts research to improve risk prediction modelling by integrating electronic healthcare records data with information from multi-modal sources, including imaging, genomics and metabolomics.

Floriaan has received funding from the British Heart Foundation, the National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, Servier, New Amsterdam Pharma, Health Data Research UK, IMI, Erasmus+, ERC horizon, ERC/UKRI Consolidator.

Education

Education
2019 - 2022
Bachelor, Mathematics and Statistics
Open University, United Kingdom
2010 - 2014
PhD, Epidemiology
Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands
2011 - 2012
Master, Clinical Epidemiology
Utrecht University, the Netherlands
2009 - 2010
Master, Public health and infectious disease
VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Specialization
  • Epidemiology
  • Statistical learning
  • Machine learning
  • Prediction research
  • Causal inference
  • Mendelian randomization
  • Human genetics