Harold Snieder

Harold Snieder is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and heads the Unit of Genetic Epidemiology & Bioinformatics at the Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen (Netherlands).

He is an expert in design and analysis of genetic and epigenetic epidemiological studies of common complex diseases with a focus on cardiometabolic and renal disease. His group has extensive expertise in quality control, statistical analysis and bioinformatic follow-up of (epi)genome-wide association study (GWAS and EWAS) data.

Harold has published more than 350 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a regular reviewer for funding agencies such as NIH and NWO and for journals such as Circulation, Hypertension, Diabetes and Psychosomatic Medicine.