Dr Sathish Periyasamy is a senior lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, Monash University and an honorary research fellow at Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. He is currently building and focusing on Systems/Genomic Medicine and conducting research in the interface of systems genetics and psychiatry to study the mechanisms of (patho-)physiological processes in psychiatric disorders using a unique combination of educational experience coupled with over thirty years of computer programming and fifteen years of computational biology experience in biomedicine. Over the past 25 years, his experience working in chemical, biological and medical domains has enabled him to focus on the interface of basic and clinical research and contribute to translational research. From 2011 to 2014, he contributed to cancer genetics research at King Abdullah International Medical Research Centre, KSA. As the bioinformatics lead, with interdisciplinary skills and expertise at the interface of computational intelligence, systems biology, quantitative and psychiatric genetics, He has contributed to psychiatric genetics research since 2014.

Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Statistical Genetics - Developing and applying GWAS, post-GWAS bioinformatics, and cross-population and systems genetics approaches.

Psychiatric Genetics and Genomics - Common and rare variant association studies in schizophrenia using genotyped and whole-exome/whole genome sequenced data; understanding the pathophysiological process using genetic findings.

Computational Intelligence – Developing and applying deep learning models for biomedicine.

Pharmacogenetics and antipsychotic drug discovery.

Supervising projects in the areas of Bioinformatics and Psychiatric Genomics