Tom leads a team of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at the SGDP Centre in developing and using genetically informative research designs to study the intergenerational transmission of mental health problems. He works extensively on large family-based databases and is Principal Investigator on the Children of Twins Early Development Study (CoTEDS), the second generation of the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS).
Research interests:
Development and use of genetically informative methods to understand the aetiology of psychopathology
Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology
Causal inference
Behavioural genetics
Structural equation modelling
Gene-environment interplay