Department of Psychiatry · University of Oxford
Amir Sariaslan, PhD
Senior Research Fellow in psychiatric epidemiology, working on the causes and consequences of psychiatric disorders and antisocial behaviour using nationwide register data and quasi-experimental designs, and on the development and validation of clinical risk prediction tools.
Biography
Amir Sariaslan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, and an NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre Training Fellow.
He earned his PhD in Epidemiology under the supervision of Professor Paul Lichtenstein at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, in 2015, and completed his postdoctoral training in forensic psychiatric epidemiology at Oxford with Professor Seena Fazel. He was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher in psychiatric genetics in Professor Patrick F. Sullivan's laboratory at Karolinska Institutet, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Universities of Helsinki and Turku prior to his current appointment. This path has run between epidemiology, psychiatry, genetics, demography and social policy across Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom, and the combination of those traditions underpins much of the work described below.
Research interests
Publications
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Press & outreach
My research has been featured in outlets such as The Economist, The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, Quartz, Slate and The Atlantic. I have previously been a scientific guest columnist for Göteborgs-Posten, one of Sweden's largest daily newspapers, and I write a Swedish popular-science newsletter about behaviour genetics.
Journalists are welcome to get in touch, and I am happy to comment on research in psychiatric epidemiology, behaviour genetics and violence, including work that is not my own. E-mail is by far the best way to reach me (see below) and I will normally reply within a day or two.