Cornelia M. van Duijn

Cornelia Marja van Duijn is a Dutch epidemiologist. She is a Professor of Epidemiology at Nuffield Department of Population Health and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Education Cornelia van Duijn studied for a master of science in human nutrition and mathematical statistics at the Agricultural University of Wageningen, and earned her doctorate in genetics and epidemiology at Erasmus University Medical School in 1992.

Research She is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at the Erasmus University Medical School Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She is also Professor of Epidemiology at Nuffield Department of Population Health, and part of the Oxford Big Data Institute. She is also involved in international consortia such as CHARGE (Cohorts for Heart & Aging Research in Genome Epidemiology), IGAP (International Genetics of Alzheimer Disease Project (IGAP) and EADB (European Alzheimer Disease Biobank).

Van Duijn is on the steering committee of the Oxford British Heart Foundation (BHF) Center of Excellence.

In June 2020 she became a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Selected publications