Dr Marta Blangiardo

I am a lecturer in Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and I am part of the MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health.

I have been working on gene expression data since 2005, first as a collaborator of the BAIR project, to find genes responsible for insulin resistance with the aim of creating an atlas and then on methodological issues (calibration of pre-processing methods, comparison of lists of differentially expressed genes).

In 2007-2009 I collaborated in the HEIMTSA project, to study the impact of pollutants on the public health of European countries. My role was to develop Bayesian models to integrate uncertainty at each step of the full chain (from the estimate of the concentration level of pollutants, to the estimate of the risk of disease or death for the population).

I am now working on several projects in the field of environmental epidemiology and my key research areas are: Bayesian modelling of exposure to air pollutants, integration of air pollution concentration from different sources; Bayesian hierarchical models for combining individual and ecological data in epidemiological studies; Bayesian measurement error models.

Brief CV

• High School Diploma: Liceo Classico "P. D'Anghiera", Arona (Novara, Italy), 1997.

• Summa cum Laude MSc in Statistics, Demography and Social Sciences, University of Milan Bicocca (Italy), 2001. Thesis in Epidemiology, titled "Parametric and semi-parametric approaches in meta-analysis of observational studies".

• PhD student in Applied Statistics, University of Florence (Italy), January 2002 - December 2004. Thesis titled "Statistical models for estimating gene expression variability".

• 2005- January 2010 Research Associate in Biostatistics and Genomics, Imperial College, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, London, UK.

•February 2010-now Lecurer in Biostatistics, Imperial College, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, London, UK & MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, London, UK.