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Professor Eirini Marouli

Eirini

Professor of Computational Biology, AI, and Emerging Technologies

Centre: Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine

Email: e.marouli@qmul.ac.uk

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ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6179-1609

Prof. Eirini Marouli is a Professor of Computational Biology, AI, and Emerging Technologies at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.

Prof. Marouli is an internationally recognised research leader at the intersection of genetics, computational biology, and artificial intelligence, combining statistical genetics, machine learning, and big data analytics to uncover biological mechanisms underlying complex traits and disease risk.

Prof. Marouli has published extensively in top-tier journals, including first-author papers in Nature, for her groundbreaking work on the genetics of human height and complex disorders. Her research advances the use of AI-driven models in precision medicine and disease prediction.

A frequent invited speaker at international conferences, Prof. Marouli has also been featured in global media for her leading work in height genetics and computational biology, including the development of a BBC Documentary Reel on Adult height.

Prof. Marouli is the Deputy Lead for the MSc Genomic Medicine, WHRI Post-Graduate Taught Course (PGT) Lead and Deputy Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Academic Lead, and Fellow at the Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI).

Awards

  • Research and Innovation Awards QMUL 2024- Research Supervisor -Shortlisted
  • Student Experience Excellence Award- FMD Staff Awards - 2024 – Nomination
  • Bodossaki Distinguished Young Scientist Awards, Nomination- shortlist of seven candidates, 2023
  • Best Student-Staff Collaboration-Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry- Queen Mary University of London – October 2022
  • SMD Women in Science Award 2021, Nomination
  • American Society of Human Genetics 2020 - Featured article in in Science
  • Best poster presentation prize - William Harvey Research Institute Annual Review (June 2020)
  • Top 20 Early Career Researcher of the year for the UK Biobank Conference (June 2019)
  • Nomination: American Society of Human Genetics Trainee Paper Spotlight 2018, for the paper: “Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height", Nature, 2017
  • 2016 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research – Semifinalist
  • The Genomics of Common Diseases congress, 2-5 September 2015, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge (Travel Grant)
  • Greek State Scholarships Foundation Fellow (July 2014-Dec 2014)

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Research

Prof. Marouli is a leading expert in human genetics, computational biology, and multi-modal AI-driven data analysis, with a strong interdisciplinary background combining laboratory biology and bioinformatics.

Her research explores the genetic and causal landscape of complex traits and diseases, including height, obesity, cardiometabolic, mental and endocrine disorders, employing multi-omics data, big data analytics, causal inference and AI-driven modelling for biological discovery and disease prediction.

Prof. Marouli  holds  leading roles in the GIANT Consortium, which has identified most of the known genetic variants associated with human height and obesity-related traits, and plays a major role in the ThyroidOMICS Consortium, advancing genetic research on thyroid biology and disease. She also contributes to global genetics initiatives including GLGC, CHARGE CARDIoGRAMplusC4D.

 

Publications

  • Richard D, Muthuirulan P, Young M et al. (publicationYear). Functional genomics of human skeletal development and the patterning of height heritability. nameOfConference


  • RAJ S, KH W, Q H et al. (publicationYear). Polygenic prediction of body mass index and obesity through the life course and across ancestries. nameOfConference


  • Garvert L, Marouli E, Grabe H et al. (publicationYear). Unravelling the complex relationship between thyroid function and depression: a BI-directional mendelian randomization study. nameOfConference


  • Kafyra M, Alpay P, Azul AM et al. (2026). Introducing OBEClust: A Pan‐European Initiative to Harmonize Obesity Prevention Research and Strengthen Translation Into Policy. nameOfConference


  • Bujnis MN, Sterenborg RBTM, Li Y et al. (2026). Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses provide insights into the genetic basis of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. nameOfConference


  • Streit F, Awasthi S, Hall ASM et al. (2026). Genome-wide association analyses of borderline personality disorder identify 11 loci and highlight shared risk with mental and somatic disorders. nameOfConference


  • Thorkildsen MS, Gustad LT, Åsvold BO et al. (publicationYear). Thyroid function and risk of sepsis: a population-based prospective cohort study with traditional and genetic epidemiological analyses. nameOfConference


  • Bartell E, Lin K, Tsuo K et al. (2026). Genetics of skeletal proportions across two different populations. nameOfConference


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  • Holm S, Tena-Sempere M, Koutsouris D et al. (2026). The case for primary prevention of obesity in the era of GLP-1 therapies. nameOfConference


  • Szczuka Z, Krzywicka P, Kornafel A et al. (2026). Are There Any Effective Behavior Change Strategies for Communicating Genetic Risk in Obesity Prevention and Body Weight Reduction Interventions?. nameOfConference


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Sponsors

Collaborators

Internal

External

  • GIANT consortium collaborators
  • ThyroidOMICS consortium collaborators: Joel Hirschhorn (Harvard); Tim Frayling (Exeter); Zoltan Kutalik (Switzerland); Adam E. Locke (Washington University); Sailaja Vedantam (Harvard); Loïc Yengo (University of Queensland); Marco Medici (Erasmus; The Netherlands); Aleksander Kus (Poland); Alexander Teumer (Germany); Sonja Berndt (NIH)

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Teaching

Undergraduate Education:

  • BIO324: Lecturer; Marker
  • MBBS: PBL Facilitator, SSCs
  • BSc PhIT: Project Supervisor

Postgraduate Education:

  • MSc Genomic Medicine: Deputy Director, Curriculum Design; Academic Advisor, Lecturer; Workshop instructor; Module Lead; Project supervisor
  • WHRI PGT courses Lead
  • MSc Bioinformatics: Project supervisor
  • PhD supervisor: HDiP, Barts Charity, NIHR
  • PDRAs and Data Scientists: Supervisor and mentor
  • PhD Progression Panel member

 

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