About the speaker
Jessie is a Sir Henry Wellcome post-doctoral fellow at UCL and visiting researcher at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre at KCL. After completing an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Warwick, Jessie joined KCL in 2013 to undertake an ESRC-funded 1+3 MSc + PhD in Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, supervised by Professors Andrea Danese and Louise Arseneault. She then worked as a post-doc at KCL (with Profs Andrea Danese and Terrie Moffitt) and at UCL (with Dr Jean-Baptiste Pingault), before starting a Sir Henry Wellcome Post-doctoral Fellowship in 2019.
Jessie’s research focuses on the role of childhood trauma in mental health. As part of this, she is interested in using quasi-experimental methods (e.g., genetically informative designs) to strengthen causal inference about the effects of childhood trauma. She is also interested in measurement of childhood trauma, and has led meta-analytic research into the agreement between prospective and retrospective measures of childhood maltreatment. Jessie is also enthusiastic about open science and co-leads the ReproducibiliTea journal club at UCL.
