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Associate Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr Jiahui Si is an epidemiologist and multi-omics researcher at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her Bachelor of Medicine in Preventive Medicine from Peking University in 2015 and her PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Peking University in 2020, with joint doctoral training at Harvard University. Her research integrates large-scale prospective cohorts, genomics, DNA methylation, metabolomics, proteomics, and artificial intelligence to understand infection-related long-term health damage, immune vulnerability and biological ageing.

Dr Si has published 30+ peer-reviewed papers, including 19 as first, co-first or corresponding author. Her work has appeared in journals including Circulation Research, Nature Communications, Genome Medicine, BMC Medicine, eLife, Diabetologia, European Respiratory Journal. Her studies have addressed epigenetic ageing and coronary heart disease, hepatitis B virus infection and chronic kidney disease/mortality, lung-function-related ethnic specific SNPs, and multi-omics evidence for disease prevention and healthy ageing.

She has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Beijing Nova Program. She has received the Excellent Paper Award of the China Association for Science and Technology, the China Medical Association Epidemiology Outstanding Paper Award, and the American Society of Human Genetics Outstanding Talk Award. She also serves as Communications Editor of the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, and has contributed to academic and public-science books, including as a co-editor of Geriatric Epidemiology.