Leo Lahti
Professor
leo.lahti@utu.fi +358 29 450 2390 +358 50 436 4626 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku : 452E |
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
- Maternal pre- and postnatal stress and maternal and infant gut microbiota features (2025)
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Multi-omics time-series analysis in microbiome research: a systematic review (2025)
- Briefings in Bioinformatics
- Obesity is associated with increased brain glucose uptake and activity but not neuroinflammation (TSPO availability) in monozygotic twin pairs discordant for BMI—Exercise training reverses increased brain activity (2025)
- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
- Oral Microbial Determinants of Saliva and Serum Lipopolysaccharide Activity (2025)
- Journal of Dental Research
- Perinatal depressive and anxiety symptoms are associated with gut microbiota in pregnant women with overweight and obesity (2025)
- Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
- Skin microbiota variation in Indian families (2025)
- PeerJ
- The Impact of Maternal Supplementation of Fish Oil and/or Probiotics During Pregnancy on the Serum Metabolomic Profile From Infancy to Childhood: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial (2025)
- Current Developments in Nutrition
- The Relationship Between Gut Microbiota During Pregnancy and the Level of Postpartum Adiposity (2025)
- MicrobiologyOpen
- Value of Multiomics Over Clinical Risk Factors in Hypertension Prediction (2025)
- Hypertension
- Variation and prognostic potential of the gut antibiotic resistome in the FINRISK 2002 cohort (2025)
- Nature Communications
- 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
- A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society (2024)
- Microbial Biotechnology
- Algorithm 1047: FdeSolver, a Julia Package for Solving Fractional Differential Equations (2024)
- ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
- Association between butyrate-producing gut bacteria and the risk of infectious disease hospitalisation : results from two observational, population-based microbiome studies (2024)
- Lancet microbe
- Association of Long-Term Habitual Dietary Fiber Intake since Infancy with Gut Microbiota Composition in Young Adulthood (2024)
- Journal of Nutrition
- Associations between gut microbiota and incident fractures in the FINRISK cohort (2024)
- npj biofilms and microbiomes
- Bone marrow metabolism is affected by body weight and response to exercise training varies according to anatomical location (2024)
- Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
- Daily skin-to-skin contact alters microbiota development in healthy full-term infants (2024)
- Gut Microbes
- Effects of Obesity and Exercise on Hepatic and Pancreatic Lipid Content and Glucose Metabolism : PET Studies in Twins Discordant for BMI (2024)
- Biomolecules
- Epidemic transmission modeling with fractional derivatives and environmental pathogens (2024)
- International Journal of Biomathematics



