Joris Deelen

Dr Joris Deelen is Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), where he aims to uncover key mechanisms of ageing and resilience and their contribution to human health and disease. His current research has a tripartite, integrated focus: (1) identifying genetic mechanisms underlying healthy ageing; (2) identifying individuals at risk of (multi)morbidity in the general population using biomarkers of ageing; and (3) improving healthy ageing in older adults through lifestyle interventions. To approach human health from an ageing perspective, he combines his expertise in (statistical) genetics and epidemiology, obtained during his PhD, with his expertise in molecular biology, obtained during nine years of research at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne, integrating epidemiological insights from human studies with cell- and model organism-based studies into causal ageing mechanisms. Dr Deelen serves on th