Our team

Maaike van Gerwen, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Maaike van Gerwen is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. She is also a member of the Institute for Translational Epidemiology and the Institute for Exposomic Research.

Mary Jane Chua, BS
Grants Manager
Mary Jane Chua is the grants manager in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

Mathilda Monaghan, MPH
Senior Research Coordinator
Mathilda Mongahan coordinates the Direct-R and Direct-P thyroid cancer studies. She has expertise in building and maintaining databases, geospatial mapping, and meta-analyses.

Seungjun Ahn, PhD
Statistician
Seungjun Ahn provides expertise in statistical modelling and study design. His research focuses on developing statistical methods and bioinformatics tools for differential network analysis, causal mediation analysis, and multi-omics data integration.

Weijia Fu, MSc
Masters Statiscian
Weijia Fu is holds an MSc in Biostatistics from the University of Washington in Seattle. Weijia has been involved in the development of statistical methodologies, the analyses of high-dimensional -omics data and statistical consultation for clinical projects. She has expertise in statistical computing in Python and R.