Douglas Garrett MA, PhD

Douglas Garrett is the Principal Investigator of the Lifespan Neural Dynamics Group (LNDG), a team of multidisciplinary computational and clinically oriented scientists within the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He is an expert in probing how and why individuals differ from one another over time (in behaviour, brain, and clinical symptoms). Over the past 25 years, his work has focused on precision (individualized) multi-omic and computational approaches to understanding brain ageing and psychiatric conditions in large-scale data. He speaks multiple scientific languages, from brain mapping to drug studies to data science, statistics, machine learning, and computational modelling. His work has been profiled in multiple popular media outlets over the last ten years, including Wired, The Times (London), Yahoo News, and MedicalXpress.

Douglas has also been a data science/statistics consultant since 2006 and was Head of the Cluster Computing Working Group at MPI for Human Development. He is an expert in the use of uni- and multivariate approaches for big data and has consulted for both commercial and public sector initiatives to optimize large-scale data-based decision-making. His team leverages multiple data science software environments (e.g., R, Python) and excels in the use of high-performance computing. We optimize and develop any data-based tools necessary for scientific success.