Rate My Professor Geng Wang

Dr Geng Wang is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. He obtained his bachelor's degree in clinical medicine in 2012 and his master's degree in internal medicine in 2016 from the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, China. From 2016 to 2017, he served as a resident physician specialising in rheumatology at Changzheng Hospital, affiliated with the Second Military Medical University, and was subsequently promoted to attending doctor. During this period, he visited the Translational Research Institute in Australia twice for bioinformatics training and collaborative research.

Dr Wang completed his PhD in statistical genetics at the University of Queensland in 2023 under the supervision of Professor David Evans. His doctoral thesis examined the use of genetics to understand the relationship between the intrauterine environment and future offspring cardiometabolic risk. His research focuses on the developmental origins of health and disease, causal inference in genetic epidemiology, genetic susceptibility of complex traits and diseases, and the advancement of statistical genetics methodologies. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including articles in Nature Communications, PLoS Genetics, and the International Journal of Epidemiology, as well as a review in the Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science. Dr Wang is available for supervision of higher degree research students.