Cristina Menni is Senior Lecturer in Molecular Epidemiology and she leads the metabolomics research group at the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology. Her research focuses on integrating large-scale metabolomics, gut microbiome, glycome and dietary data to discover, prioritise and characterise metabolic pathways associated with age-related disorders. During the pandemic, she was actively involved in COVID-19 research using data from the ZOE COVID Study App.

Cristina received a Master in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in statistics from the University of Milan-Bicocca where she specialised in statistical genetics. She joined the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology in 2011. She currently holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor at the University of Milan.

Cristina is Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, Associate Editor for Gut Microbes and in the Editorial board of Gut Microbes Reports. She sits on the TwinsUK Executive Committee.