Collaborators
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John Gallacher
Professor of Cognitive Health; Director, Dementias Platform UK; Director, BrainWaves study of adolescent wellbeing and mental health
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Pippa Watson
DPhil Student
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Meggie Smith
Research Assistant (Data Curation)
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Abhaya Adlakha
Researcher
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Maria Bunyan
DPhil Student
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Shivani Suresh
DPhil Student
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Morgane Kuenzi
Postdoctoral Researcher Blossom Early Adversity & Brain Health Programme, Dementias Platform UK (DPUK)
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James Lian
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Manjistha Datta
DPHIL STUDENT
Sarah Bauermeister
PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, MSc, BSc Hons, BA Hons
Associate Professor, Chief Scientist Dementias Platform UK, Co-Director BrainWaves
- Cognitive neuropsychologist
- Epidemiologist
- Senior analyst
- Early Career Researcher Training
- Data Curation Lead
- Principal Investigator Blossom Early Adversity & Brain Health
- Principal Investigator Modify
Life course cognitive health research, large scale epidemiological data curation and analytics, and early career researcher training.
Biography
I am a cognitive neuropsychologist and epidemiologist managing scientific research across diverse multi-disciplinary projects. I am Chief Scientist for Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) https://www.dementiasplatform.uk/, a cohort data repository for 100+ cohort datasets (3.7 million+ participants). For DPUK I lead the ECR training and mentoring programme, I am also programme lead for DPUK Data curation and I am lead for scientific review for the DPUK Data Portal.
As Associate Professor at the Dept. Psychiatry University of Oxford, I am principal investigator (PI) for the Early Adversity and Brain Health Programme 'Blossom', investigating the effects of early adversity on later life biopsychosocial outcomes and dementia https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/research/early-adversity-and-brain-health. I am Oxford PI for an NIH funded international collaborative project: Covid Global Mental Health Consortium (CGMHC), with Harvard and Sao Paolo. I am Oxford PI for the European Union funded COMmorbidity Mechanisms UTilized in HealthcarE (COMMUTE) collaborative project lead by Fraunhofer SCAI. I am also Co I on the ARUK funded Blood Biomarker READ-OUT , the MRC funded TBI-reporter (Cambridge). I am Co-Director of the DPUK-Korean Brain Research Institute (KBRI) Joint Research Centre in South Korea and I am Co-Director of the BrainWaves Mental Health and Wellbeing platform https://brainwaveshub.org/
I also lead projects supporting diversity and inclusivity in dementia and scientific research. I am PI for an ARUK funded project 'Your Beautiful Brain' - running brain health art workshops for the Black African and Caribbean communities. I also lead a programme of work 'Not just a missing number', focused on the LGBTQIA+ community for increasing research participation, understanding and scientific focus within this population. I am PI for Modify, a programme focused on modifiable risk factors for dementia https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/research/modifiable-risk-factors-for-dementia.
I am the Associate Director for Data Analysis at DPUK, specialising in psychometric analyses and longitudinal structural equation modelling. I also train researchers in both, and the integration of theory-led and data driven approaches to large multi-cohort analyses.
Socialmedia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbauermeister/
Recent publications
Would Lifting Versus Maintaining COVID-19 Containment Policies Have Reduced Psychological Distress in the US?
Preprint
Cudic M. et al, (2026)
Parental and Adolescent Positive Affect and Optimism as Predictors of Post-surgical Mood and Functioning in Adolescents Undergoing Spinal Fusion Surgery.
Journal article
Parsons RD. et al, (2026), Clin J Pain
Blood biomarkers for diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in real-world clinical populations: A systematic review.
Journal article
Suresh S. et al, (2026), J Alzheimers Dis, 109, 1574 - 1589
Associations of heat exposure with mental health and suicide in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal article
Lai KY. et al, (2026), Npj Ment Health Res, 5
The craniofacial shape of modern humans embodies genomic signatures of evolution, diversity, and clinical conditions.
Preprint
Goovaerts S. et al, (2026)
Mapping dementia research in Indonesia: A scoping review of evidence, gaps, and future directions.
Journal article
Tjin A. et al, (2026), PLOS Glob Public Health, 6
