Dr. Rahia Mashoodh

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Biography

Rahia Mashoodh is a UCL Excellence Fellow within the Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment at University College London. She completed her PhD in Behavioral Epigenetics at Columbia University in 2014, under the supervision of Professor Frances Champagne. Following her doctoral studies, she undertook postdoctoral training as a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow in genomics and epigenomics at the University of Cambridge's Department of Genetics, working alongside Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith. Rahia was later appointed as a BBSRC Future Leaders Fellow at the Department of Zoology at Cambridge from October 2019 to December 2022. Her research primarily focuses on the interconnections between genetics, evolution, and environmental factors, contributing towards a better understanding of behavioral epigenetics. In 2023, she moved to University College London to take up her current position as an Excellence Fellow.

Research Interests

Experience

BBSRC Future Leaders Fellow

2019-10-01 — 2022-12-01

University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology • Cambridge, United Kingdom

Conducted independent research on the impact of genetic and environmental factors on behavior.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2015-10-01 — 2017-10-31

University of Cambridge, Department of Genetics • Cambridge, United Kingdom

Conducted research on genomics and epigenomics.