Prof. Krina Zondervan (female) is head of the Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, professor of reproductive and genomic epidemiology; and co-director of the Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre at Oxford University. She came to Oxford on an Erasmus exchange scholarship in 1993 after an MSc in biomedical sciences (cum laude, 1995) at Leiden University, the Netherlands. She read for a DPhil (NDOG/DPH, St Edmund Hall, 1999) on the epidemiology of chronic pelvic pain and was subsequently awarded an MRC Training Research Fellowship in Genetic Epidemiology based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, which included an MSc in genetic epidemiology (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2001) and research periods at the Queensland Institute for Medical Research, Australia, and the Dept of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, the USA. She was recognized in 2013 as Outstanding Female Scientist (AcademiaNet, Wellcome Trust nomination); in 2019 through an Honorary Skou Professorship at the University of Aarhus, Denmark; and in 2022 through an Honorary Fellowship ad eundem by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the UK. Her research has focused more than 20 years on understanding the causes of common women’s health conditions through genomic and epidemiological approaches to improve diagnostic and treatment options.
