Miriam Mosing

Dr. Mosing's main research interest is how genes and environment play together to produce individual differences in quality of life throughout lifespan as well as in expertise. Why do some people fare better than others throughout life and in old age in terms of cognitive, mental and somatic health? Why are some people more successful and become experts in a given field? Understanding how genetic predispositions interplay with environmental factors will reveal the nature of phenotypic associations observed in daily life, which will not only allow us to identify truly causal and modifiable risk/protective factors (relevant environments), but will ultimately also help us to identify those who are at greatest risk or may benefit most from interventions.
Dr. Mosing is a behavioural geneticist who conducted her PhD research at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and the University of Queensland, Australia. After completing her PhD, she held postdoc positions at the Neuroscience and the Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Departments at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, before she became an Assistant Professor in 2016 and an Associate Professor (Docent) in 2020. In 2020, Dr. Mosing was awarded a prestigious DMR fellowship to relocate her research group from Karolinska Institutet to the University of Melbourne, Australia. Since mid 2021, she is permanently back in Europe and leads the Behavior Genetics Unit at the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany, while also regularly spending time at her office at the Karolinska Institutet.