Leo Lahti
Professor
leo.lahti@utu.fi +358 29 450 2390 +358 50 436 4626 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 452E ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5537-637X |
Data science; AI; Machine Learning; Applied statistics; Statistical programming; Probabilistic models; Complex natural and social systems; Microbial ecology; Computational humanities; Open knowledge
Leo Lahti is professor in Data Science in University of Turku, Finland. His research team focuses on computational analysis and modeling of complex natural and social systems. Lahti obtained doctoral degree (DSc) from Aalto University in Finland (2010), developing probabilistic machine learning methods for high-throughput life science data integration. This was followed by subsequent postdoctoral research at EBI/Hinxton (UK), Wageningen University (NL), and VIB/KU Leuven (BE). Lahti has coordinated international networks in data science methods and applications and organizes international data science training events on a regular basis. He is vice chair for the national coordination on open science Finland, executive committee member for the International Science Council Committee on Data (2023-2025), member of the global Bioconductor Community Advisory Board, and founder of the open science work group of Open Knowledge Finland ry. For more information, see the research homepage iki.fi/Leo.Lahti
Computational scientist focusing on change in complex natural and social systems, and how they can be understood through a computational lens.
Computational and data science, statistical and probabilistic programming, machine learning, AI, applied statistics, ecological models, open science
- Assessing the safety of microbiome perturbations (2025)
- Microbial genomics
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Association of leisure time physical activity with gut microbiota composition in early adulthood (2025)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Associations of alcohol with the human gut microbiome and prospective health outcomes in the FINRISK 2002 cohort (2025)
- European Journal of Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Elementary methods provide more replicable results in microbial differential abundance analysis (2025)
- Briefings in Bioinformatics
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Fermented foods affect the seasonal stability of gut bacteria in an Indian rural population (2025)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fractional modelling of COVID-19 transmission incorporating asymptomatic and super-spreader individuals (2025)
- Mathematical Biosciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gender differences in global antimicrobial resistance (2025)
- npj biofilms and microbiomes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gut Microbiome as a Risk Factor for Future CKD (2025)
- Kidney International Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gut microbiome-derived bacterial extracellular vesicles in patients with solid tumours (2025)
- Journal of Advanced Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gut microbiota-derived extracellular vesicles form a distinct entity from gut microbiota (2025)
- MSystems
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - iSEEtree: interactive explorer for hierarchical data (2025)
- Bioinformatics Advances
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Learning and teaching biological data science in the Bioconductor community (2025)
- PLoS Computational Biology
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Links between gut microbiota with specific serum metabolite groups in pregnant women with overweight or obesity (2025)
- Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maternal pre- and postnatal stress and maternal and infant gut microbiota features (2025)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Perinatal depressive and anxiety symptoms are associated with gut microbiota in pregnant women with overweight and obesity (2025)
- Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Skin microbiota variation in Indian families (2025)
- PeerJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Variation and prognostic potential of the gut antibiotic resistome in the FINRISK 2002 cohort (2025)
- Nature Communications
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A cohort study in family triads : impact of gut microbiota composition and early life exposures on intestinal resistome during the first two years of life (2024)
- Gut Microbes
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society (2024)
- Microbial Biotechnology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Algorithm 1047: FdeSolver, a Julia Package for Solving Fractional Differential Equations (2024)
- ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)