DrJoram Matthias Posma

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction working on adaptive information recovery, robust data fusion and immersive data visualisation of omics data, focusing on applications in biomedicine (cardiometabolic diseases, cancer, nutrition - e.g. via MRC and EPSRC funded research) including biomedical natural language processing (e.g. via ELIXIR and EU-HORIZON funded research).

Past roles

I was a Lecturer in Cancer Informatics in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction (previously in the Department of Surgery and Cancer) from 08/2018 until 08/2022 to work on adaptive information recovery, robust data fusion and immersive data visualisation of omics data, focusing on applications in cancer, as well as cardiometabolic diseases, and their interface with nutrition, and to the biomedical literature more generally.

Previously (02/2018 to 01/2022) I was recipient of a Rutherford Fund Fellowship (Health Data Research UK Fellow) at HDR UK to work on my project titled "Identification of Metabolic Phenotypes and Systemic Biochemical Reaction Networks Associated with Human Blood Pressure". I worked with Prof Paul Elliott and Prof Jeremy Nicholson for this project in the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (School of Public Health) and the department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction.

From 11/2014 to 02/2018 I was a postdoctoral Research Associate in the department of Surgery and Cancer (division of Computational and Systems Medicine) working under the guidance of Prof Jeremy Nicholson and Prof Elaine Holmes on novel data visualisation approaches, data fusion of NMR, MS and 16S rRNA data, and various other projects (including personalised and precision nutrition, large population phenotyping studies and development of automated statistical spectroscopy tools). Before that a Research Assistant (10/2014) working on the same project.

My PhD (10/2011 to 09/2014) was funded by an MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health studentship jointly between the department of Surgery and Cancer (division of Computational and Systems Medicine) and department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. I was supervised by Prof Jeremy Nicholson and Prof Paul Elliott and working within the INTERMAP study on my PhD thesis titled "Novel Statistical and Bioinformatic Tools for Identifying Predictive Metabolic Biomarkers in Molecular Epidemiology Studies". I passed my PhD viva on the 7th of October 2014 and was awarded the PhD on November 1st 2014.