Sheena Waters, PhD

Dr. Sheena Waters is a senior postdoctoral research associate and data analyst at Queen Mary University of London, whose research integrates large-scale biobank analytics, neuroimaging, multi-omics and clinical data to advance early detection of Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia and related neurodegenerative disorders. She has developed scalable pipelines for processing and harmonizing phenotype data, structural and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans, multi-omics data and NHS-coded clinical data using data from large biobanks/studies, such as UKB, ADNI, PPMI and PREDICT-PD. Dr. Waters contributes to international PD research as a clinical data analyst for the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2), for which she harmonizes clinical data across diverse global cohorts. She also co-leads the DEMON (Deep Dementia Phenotyping) Network Imaging Working Group, coordinating international projects applying AI and neuroimaging methods for early detection of dementia.