I am interested broadly in understanding differences among individuals in personality traits and psychopathology, the origins of these differences, and their interaction with experience in producing mental health outcomes in adolescence, adulthood and late life. My research in aging uses data from ongoing twin studies in Denmark and Australia; I particularly enjoy international and interdisciplinary collaborations.
My lab is currently running a study aimed at understanding the interplay among multiple risk factors for depression, anxiety, weight gain and disordered eating.
Food for thought:
"Often before now I have applied my thoughts to the puzzling question – one, probably, which will puzzle me for ever – why it is that, while all Greece lies under the same sky and all Greeks are educated alike, it has befallen us to have characters so variously constituted." Theophrastus