Professor Krina Zondervan

About

Professor Krina Zondervan is head of the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health (NDWRH), Professor of Reproductive & Genomic Epidemiology and co-director of the Endometriosis CaRe centre at the University of Oxford. Professor Zondervan is also a Fellow by Special Election at St Edmund Hall. 

Professor Zondervan 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 Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

In 2007, Professor Zondervan was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship and in 2012 became co-director of the Endometriosis CaRe centre in Oxford (with Christian Becker). She was appointed as Professor of Reproductive and Genomic Epidemiology in 2015.

Professor Zondervan was recognised 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, UK.

Other current roles include: Research Advisory Board member for the European Research Council, advanced grants panel, and for Wellbeing of Women, UK. Board Member (Hon Secretary), World Endometriosis Society; Board Member (Hon Secretary), World Endometriosis Research Foundation; Chair, Research Directions Committee, World Endometriosis Society/World Endometriosis Research Foundation; Research Advisory Board, Wellbeing of Women UK; Lead for Genetic Discovery & Translation in the Oxford University-Bayer Healthcare Endometriosis Alliance; Scientific Advisory Board member of the Boston Center for Endometriosis (Harvard Medical School, USA); Section Head Endometriosis, Faculty 1000; Scientific Advisory Board member for AbbVie Inc, Bayer HealthCare, and Roche Diagnostics. ​