Reimagining Longevity through Optimal Experiences - Speaker biographies

Dr Theng Yin Leng

Dr. Theng Yin Leng is President’s Chair in Information Studies, and Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). She is the Executive Director of the Ageing Research Institute for Society and Education (ARISE). In the area of research, Dr. Theng’s philosophy is about doing scientifically based experimental Human-Computer Interaction in understanding users and their interactions, especially for Information Systems, in her earlier research on the World Wide Web and Digital Libraries, and with a focus on interactive systems/devices for the Elderly, Healthcare, Education and Training.

Professor Lorainne Tudor Car

Professor Lorainne Tudor Car, MD PhD MSc (LSE), is Professor of Digital Health and Inkfish Principal Medical Research Scientist within the EMBRACE research programme at King’s College London. She is a physician-methodologist with expertise in the design, evaluation, and implementation of digital health interventions. Her work draws on behaviour change science, user-centred design, mixed-methods research, and robust evaluation frameworks. Her current research focuses on large language models, personal AI health assistants, wearable devices, and broader digital health innovation, with an emphasis on prevention, early intervention, and the management of chronic diseases.

Professor Tudor Car has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers, including in Nature Medicine, npj Digital Medicine, and The Lancet Healthy Longevity, and her work has informed national and international policy, including WHO guidance. She serves on the editorial boards of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine and JMIR Medical Education, and has held academic and research roles across Asia, Europe, the US, and the UK, including at Imperial College London, LKCMedicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also deeply committed to education and mentorship, with extensive experience supporting researchers, clinicians, and multidisciplinary teams across career stages.

Professor Claire Steves

Claire is a Professor of Ageing and Health, Head of Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology and Clinical Director of TwinsUK, King’s College London. She is also a Consultant Geriatrician at Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, where she specialises in cognitive impairment and dementia assessment and management, particularly in the context of multiple medical problems.

Research-wise Claire is interested in how each one of us ages differently and uses population studies like TwinsUK to understand what underlies this variability. She works across health boundaries, interested in both physical and mental health and the intersections between them, including significant contributions to understanding of how COVID-19 and the pandemic affected older people. She established that environmental factors are particularly important in understanding trajectories of ageing. This has led to focused work on the relationship between the microbiome and conditions of ageing, including cognitive ageing, frailty and multi-morbidity. Her research department studies ageing and health using biological and clinical collections, data linkage with health, educational and environmental records collaborating with ageing biologists and social and environmental scientists. She is Director of King’s Centre for Ageing Resilience in a Changing Environment (CARICE), a unique and novel initiative which aims to reduce the negative collective impact of the major global challenges of climate change and population ageing.

Claire has published more than 150 research articles in high impact journals and appears regularly in the media.