Adrian G. Zucco

Adrian G. Zucco

Assistant Professor in Health Complexity

University of Copenhagen

I’m a curious researcher fascinated by the complexity of our inner experiences and the world around us, driven by the purpose of improving our health and well-being.

  • 💻🔬 Methodologically, I am exploring how explainable machine learning can be used as a scientific tool to model complexity. Within public health and epidemiology, these tools have potential to help us uncover the complex patterns, mechanisms, and dynamics of diseases emerging from the interplay of biopsychosocial factors.
  • 🎓🦠 Academically, I have contributed to the fields of bioinformatics, immunology, and infectious diseases (mainly HIV and COVID-19). More recently, I’ve broadened my focus to investigate how mental health and societal factors interact with and affects us.
  • 🤔💡 Personally, I am committed to challenging limiting assumptions within statistics and biomedical research. I do this by integrating insights from diverse fields such as philosophy, cognitive and contemplative science, causal inference, artificial intelligence, and complexity science.
  • 🔓📢 Socially, I advocate for open-source and reproducible research. I also actively explore innovative formats for scientific communication and education, aiming to make complex knowledge accessible to the public.
Interests
  • Explainable Machine Learning
  • Public Health
  • Complex Systems
  • Immunology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy
Education
  • PhD in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

    University of Copenhagen

  • MSc in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

    Technical University of Denmark

  • BSc in Biochemistry

    Autonomous University of Madrid

Projects

Copenhagen Health Complexity Center

Copenhagen Health Complexity Center

Member of the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

DANLIFE (The DANish LIFE course cohort)

DANLIFE (The DANish LIFE course cohort)

The DANish LIFE course cohort (DANLIFE) is a nationwide, register-based, life-course cohort that is based on comprehensive and continuously updated information on social adversity and major life events from the Danish registers.

Disease trajectories in the European Health Data Space (EHDS)

Disease trajectories in the European Health Data Space (EHDS)

Use case to study longitudinal health trajectories - and in particular those leading to cardiometabolic diseases using machine learning.

The Young Sleep Program

The Young Sleep Program

Patterns, mechanisms, and dynamics underlying sleep health in young adults.