Sarah Bauermeister
BA Hons, BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS
Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Cognitive neuropsychologist
- Epidemiologist
- Lead for DPUK Analyst Training
- Lead for DPUK Data Curation
- PI for Blossom Early Adversity & Brain Health
- PI for Modify
Senior Scientist for Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) and BrainWaves
Biography
I am a cognitive neuropsychologist and epidemiologist managing scientific research across diverse multi-disciplinary projects. I am the Senior Scientist for Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) https://www.dementiasplatform.uk/, a cohort data repository for 60+ cohorts (3.5 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.
As Associate Professor at the Dept. Psychiatry University of Oxford, I am principal investigator (PI) for 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. 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) and NIH funded COSMIC consortium (Australia UNSW).
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 am PI for Modify, a programme focused on modifiable risk factors for dementia https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/research/modifiable-risk-factors-for-dementia.
I am a psychometric analyst and specialise in 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.
I am also Senior Scientist for the BrainWaves study of adolescent mental heath and wellbeing, leading on the longitudinal cohort study https://brainwaveshub.org/.
Socialmedia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbauermeister/
Recent publications
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A systematic review of in vivo brain insulin resistance biomarkers in humans
Journal article
Reid G. et al, (2025), Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry, 12
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Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ebrahimi OV. et al, (2025), BMC Med, 23
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The dynamic interplay between mental health difficulties and the family environment in early adolescence
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Bjørndal LD. et al, (2025), Jcpp Advances
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The impact of early adversity on later life health, lifestyle, and cognition.
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Künzi M. et al, (2024), BMC Public Health, 24
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Dementias Platform UK: Bringing genetics into life.
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Leonenko G. et al, (2024), Alzheimers Dement, 20, 3281 - 3289
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Distress and neuroticism as mediators of the effect of childhood and adulthood adversity on cognitive performance in the UK Biobank study.
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Pflanz CP. et al, (2024), Sci Rep, 14