Speakers - Committees
       CELSE2010 Organising Committee

 

       Chair: Demetris Pillas (Cyprus/UK - Imperial College London / ICLS)

       Deputy Chair: George Papadopoulos (Cyprus - Ministry of Education)

       Member: Prof. Elias Dinenis (Cyprus - Neapolis University Paphos)

 

        Heads of Scientific Programme

       Mr. Demetris Pillas (Cyprus/UK - Imperial College London / ICLS)

       Dr. Alina Rodriguez (UK/Sweden - Imperial College/ Uppsala University)

       Prof. Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin (UK/Finland - Imperial College/ Univ. of Oulu)

      

       

       Keynote Speakers

 

Prof. James Heckman(US) 

 

   

 Prof. Marcus Pembrey(UK)

   Importance of early human development

   (Nobel Laureate in Economics)

  

   Epigenetic influences of early life experiences

 

 Prof. Jørn Olsen (Denmark/US)

   

   Epidemiology of reproductive health

   (Danish National Birth cohort)

 

 Prof. George Davey Smith (UK)

   Genetic and lifecourse epidemiology

   (Mendelian randomization)

 Prof. Jay Belsky (US/UK)

   Child development 

   ('Belsky's process model of determinants of parenting')

 Prof. Dorrett Boomsma (NL)

   Biological psychology / Genetics of intelligence 

   (Netherlands Twin Register)
 Prof. John Ioannidis (Greece/US)    Statistical methods / meta-analysis

 

       Full titles of all invited keynote presentations will be announced soon 

 

 

       Scientific Committee

       

       Prof. Philip Asherson (UK - King's College London)

       Prof. Chryssa Bakoula (Greece - University of Athens)

       Prof. David Blane (UK - International Centre for Lifecourse Studies)

       Prof. Piet van den Brandt (Netherlands - Maastricht University)

       Dr. Eric Brunner (UK - University College London)

       Dr. Leda Chatzi (Greece - University of Crete)

       Dr. Bianca De Stavola (UK - LSHTM)

       Prof. Maria Eliophotou-Menon (Cyprus - University of Cyprus)

       Dr. Pauline Emmett (UK - University of Bristol)

       Dr. Kostas Fanti (Cyprus - University of Cyprus)

       Prof. Stelios Georgiou (Cyprus - University of Cyprus)

       Prof. Albert Hoffman (Netherlands - EMC Rotterdam)    

       Dr. Panayiota Kendeou (Cyprus - Neapolis University Paphos)

       Prof. Manolis Kogevinas (Spain - IMIM)

       Prof. Diana Kuh (UK - MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing)

       Dr. Nicos Middleton (Cyprus - Cyprus University of Technology)

       Dr. Gopal Netuveli (UK - International Centre for Lifecourse Studies)

       Prof. Nancy Pedersen (Sweden - Karolinska Institutet)

       Dr. George Ploubidis (UK - LSHTM)

       Dr. Theodora Pouliou (UK - UCL Institute of Child Health)

       Prof. Chris Power (UK - UCL Institute of Child Health)

       Prof. Lea Pulkkinen (Finland - University of Jyvaskyla)

       Prof. Raanan Shamir (Israel - Tel-Aviv University)

       Prof. Rolv Skjaerven (Norway - University of Bergen)

       Prof. Henrik Sorensen (Denmark - Aarhus University Hospital)

       Dr. Panayiotis Stavrinides (Cyprus - University of Cyprus)

       Prof. Michael Symonds (UK - University of Nottingham)

       Prof. Antonia Trichopoulou (Greece - University of Athens) 

       Dr. Tanja Vrijkotte (Netherlands - AMC Amsterdam)

       Dr. Elizabeth Webb (UK - International Centre for Lifecourse Studies)