Inga Prokopenko

Prof Inga Prokopenko is Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Chair and Professor of e-One Health at the University of Surrey, where she leads the Section of Statistical Multi-Omics. She previously served as Founding Co-Director and is currently a Principal Fellow of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI. She is Chair of the Education Committee of the European Society of Human Genetics, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Lister Institute, and Visiting Professor at the University of Lille, France. Prof Prokopenko obtained her PhD from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 2004. Following research in R&D at GlaxoSmithKline in Verona, she undertook postdoctoral research at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford. She subsequently spent six years at Imperial College London as Associate Professor before joining the University of Surrey. Her research spans statistical genetics, genomics, mult