Laurie Hannigan is a senior researcher based at the Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), Oslo, Norway. He completed an undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Southampton, in the UK, followed by a master’s in Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry at King’s College London. He obtained his PhD in Behavior Genetics from King’s in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Thalia Eley and Dr. Tom McAdams. After a short postdoctoral position at the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing in 2018, he moved to Oslo to focus on genetic epidemiological work with the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort study (MoBa). He now co-leads the Psychiatric Genetic Epidemiology (PaGE) research group at Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital and is a member of the PsychGen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health at NIPH. He also holds an honorary research associate position at the MRC Intergrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol. His research interests include studying within-family transmission of risk for psychiatric disorders, the aetiology and development of emotional and behavioural problems, factors influencing the emergence of neurodevelopmental conditions, patterns and consequences of comorbidity and multimorbidity, and methodological issues in the application of developmental genetic epidemiological approaches to birth cohort and population registry data sources.
Laurie is committed to encouraging and supporting the use of the Registered Report format as a means for authors submitting to JCPPA to enhance the robustness, validity, and impact of their work.