Student Profiles

Evelynne graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Integrative Biology. While an undergraduate student, she worked in the labs of Dr. Alan Bergland (University of Virginia), investigating quantitative genetic markers in Drosophila, Dr. Melissa Knauert (Yale School of Medicine), investigating sleep deprivation in critically ill patients, and Dr. Lisa Fucito (Yale School of Medicine), investigating sleep interventions for the prevention of alcohol use disorder in young adults. 

After graduation, Evelynne worked as a clinical research coordinator at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Metabolism Unit, where she was supervised by Dr. Markella Zanni, Ms. Kathleen Fitch, and Dr. Steven Grinspoon. Her research focused on prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic disease among people ageing with HIV.

Evelynne then pursued an MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. She completed her master’s dissertation in the lab of Prof. Aiden Doherty, investigating the association between device-measured physical activity and risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. She continued this work as a Trainee Fellow at Oxford’s Big Data Institute, where her research sought to integrate wearable accelerometer, imaging, and genetic data to further understand the association between physical activity and cognitive decline.

As an NIH Oxford Scholar, Evelynne will explore associations between physical activity and disease with respect to reverse causation. This work will leverage data from wrist-worn accelerometers and genomics from large biobank cohort studies, including All of Us and the UK Biobank. She will be supervised by Dr. Joshua Denny (NHGRI) and Prof. Aiden Doherty (Oxford).