Bio

Background and research interests

I am a postdoctoral researcher in clinical epidemiology at the School of Medical Sciences, Örebro University, and a licensed clinical psychologist. My research examines how mental and physical health conditions develop together, influence one another, and shape treatment outcomes. I combine longitudinal studies and population-based register data to address questions relevant to prevention and clinical care.

Research interests

• Multimorbidity in respiratory disease: Clinical challenges in managing chronic respiratory disease alongside co-occurring conditions, particularly in primary care.
• Sleep and health: How sleep problems influence the development and course of other conditions, especially mental illness and pain, and whether improving sleep can improve these outcomes.
• Electroconvulsive therapy: Factors influencing treatment response, safety, and longer-term outcomes, particularly comorbid conditions co-occurring with affective disorders.
• Mental and physical multimorbidity: How mental and physical illnesses interplay over time, and how their co-occurrence shapes health, treatment, and care needs. Causal inference and longitudinal methods: Using observational data to investigate treatment effects and explanatory pathways, with interests in, for example, mediation analysis, target trial emulation, and machine learning models.

Background

I hold a PhD in psychology from Örebro University. My doctoral research examined the relationship between insomnia and pain across adolescence, exploring how sleep timing, emotional arousal, depressed mood, and rumination may help explain their development. This work informs my continuing interest in early intervention and the potential of sleep treatment to prevent persistent pain and mental health problems.

My subsequent research in clinical epidemiology has broadened this focus to multimorbidity and treatment outcomes across the lifespan. My current postdoctoral work addresses clinical challenges in people with chronic pulmonary disease. Alongside this, I collaborate on nationwide register studies of electroconvulsive therapy, examining how patient characteristics and co-occurring conditions relate to treatment response and safety.

My training as a clinical psychologist informs the questions I bring to research, with an emphasis on understanding patients’ overlapping difficulties and producing knowledge that can support clinical decisions.

Beyond research

I spend most of my spare time with my family or keeping active, whether that means spending time in nature, cycling, or lifting weights.