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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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, PI Life Course Cognitive Health, Co-Director BrainWaves
- Cognitive neuropsychologist
- Epidemiologist
- Senior Data Manager
- Early Career Researcher Training
- Data Curation Lead
- Principal Investigator Blossom
- Principal Investigator Modify
- Principal Investigator Life Course Cognitive Health
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. As Associate Professor at the Dept. Psychiatry University of Oxford, I am principal investigator (PI) for the Life Course Cognitive Health programme https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/research/research-groups/life-course-cognitive-health which includes 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, and Modify, a programme focused on modifiable risk factors for dementia https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/research/modifiable-risk-factors-for-dementia.
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 am Senior Scientist and Senior Data Manager 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.
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
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
The role of lifestyle in the association of multimorbidity clusters and dementia risk: a large-scale UK Biobank cohort study
Preprint
Wiesner T. et al, (2026)
Joint Effects of Early Pandemic Containment Policies on Anxiety in the United States.
Preprint
Watts D. et al, (2026)
Sensitive periods for childhood adversity and their impact on later life outcomes: A narrative review
Preprint
Pflanz CP. et al, (2026)
