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
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 Mental Health Research, 5
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), Clinical Journal of Pain, Publish Ahead of Print
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, (2025), J Alzheimers Dis, 109
