Researcher profile

Zoltán Kutalik

Zoltán Kutalik, PhD is a statistical geneticist, associate professor at the University of Lausanne, heading the Statistical Genetics Group and honorary senior lecturer at the University of Exeter. His main research interest lies in developing statistical methods integrating various data modalities to better understand the genetic architecture of complex human diseases. He is a council member of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), scientific programme committee member of the ESHG, EMGM, BC2, ISCB conferences and evaluation committee member of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Zoltan is on the advisory board of the LongITools EU project, the CoLaus study, he is member of the science council of the Health 2030 Genome Center, an editorial board member of PLoS Genetics, Human Molecular Genetics, EJHG and ASHG. He won the Early Career Bioinformatician Award of the SIB, the Investigator-in-training award of the University of Lausanne and shared the Leenaards Prize. He published >200 peer-reviewed articles (>55,000 citations, h-index>100) in international scientific journals (incl. Nature, Nature Human Behavior, Nature Genetics and Nature Communications). His research has been financed by the SNSF, the SIB, the SystemsX.ch and the Leenaards Foundation.