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. After receiving her Ph.D. from Lund University, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute before joining the faculty of Oxford.