Cecilia Lindgren

Cecilia M. Lindgren is Professor of Genomic Endocrinology & Metabolism in the Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford, where she is also Group Head at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and a research fellow at St. Anne's College. She became director of the Big Data Institute at Oxford on 1 April 2021; she had previously been a senior group leader at the institute. She is known for her research on the genetics of obesity and other complex traits.[1] After receiving her Ph.D. from Lund University, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute before joining the faculty of Oxford.[2]