Professor Divya Mehta

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Faculty of Health,
School of Biomedical Sciences


Personal details

Positions

Principal Research Fellow
Faculty of Health,
School of Biomedical Sciences

Keywords

Genomics, AI in health, Biostatistics, Psychiatric genetics, Epigenetics, Gene expression, PTSD, Depression

Research field

Genetics, Psychology

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Qualifications

  • Dr rer nat (Technical University of Munich)

Professional memberships and associations

Editorial roles: 1) Brain Behaviour and Immunity Journal, Editorial Board 2) Frontiers in Genetics, Editorial Board International Consortia membership: 1) Posttraumatic stress disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium 2) Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium 3) Biological Psychiatry Australia 4) Society of Biological Psychiatry 5) European College of Neuropsychopharmacology

Teaching

1) 2020 - Unit coordinator of “Genetic Epidemiology” LQN302 unit, within the Master of Clinical Diagnostic Genomics LS81, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). I have written and developed this Masters unit. 2) 2020 - Basic statistics workshop, 1st year Biomedical Sciences core unit, QUT. 3) 2020 "Epigenetics and Health" lecture, QUT undergrad 3rd year core unit in Physiological Psychology. 4) 2018 –"Stress and Health" lecture, QUT undergrad 3rd year core unit in Physiological Psychology. 5) 2015, 2014 and 2013 – Biomedical Sciences undergraduate course (BIOM 3200): Bioinformatics workshop – Statistical analysis using R, The University of Queensland. 6) 2014 and 2013 – Tutor, Genetics workshop, Australian Brain Bee Challenge, The University of Queensland. Aimed to motivate high school students to learn about the brain via laboratory demonstrations, inspiring them to pursue careers in neuroscience. 7) 2015 and 2014 – Wrote and supervised the UQ third year undergrad “Human Molecular Genetics and Disease” course Problem-Based Learning “Multifactorial disease” module

Publications

QUT ePrints

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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/divya.mehta

Awards

Selected research projects

Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.

Supervision

Current supervisions

  • Unravelling the Secrets of Stress: An Investigation of the Associations between Genetic, Epigenetic, and Psychosocial Factors in Stress and Post-Trauma Mental Health Outcomes
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Jane Shakespeare-Finch
  • The role of genetics and epigenetics in co-morbidity of Posttraumatic Stress and migraine Disorder
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Distinguished Professor Lyn Griffiths, Professor Dale Nyholt
  • Biopsychosocial factors associated with stress among first-year Psychology & Counselling university students
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Associate Professor Trish Obst, Dr Daggi Bruenig
  • The out-of-distribution generalisation of narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis from multimodal social media data
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Richi Nayak
  • Longitudinal Biopsychosocial Markers of Posttraumatic Outcomes in a Population of Emergency Responders
    PhD, Principal Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Jane Shakespeare-Finch
  • The relationship between migraine and human gut microbiome
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Dale Nyholt
  • Exploring Trauma: Investigating Intrusive Memories and other PTSD Symptomatology using Experimental Paradigms
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Dr Luke Ney, Professor Ottmar Lipp