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Habtewold, Tesfa Dejenie  PhD

Researcher with 103 publications in the last 11 years
Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold was born on January 29, 1987 in Yewello, Ethiopia. In 2009, he graduated and obtained his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Nursing from Hawassa University, Ethiopia. In 2013, he obtained his Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Adult Health Nursing from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He did his master thesis entitled “Identifying factors affecting depressive symptoms in patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes” at Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Since 2013, he has worked as a lecturer at the Debre Berhan University, Ethiopia. In 2015, he is also registered as Chief Adult Health Nurse practitioner by the Amhara National Regional State Health Bureau. In the same year, he started with the M.Sc. in Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology at the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands and obtained his degree in 2017. He did his master thesis entitled “Polygenic risk score for schizophrenia and glycemic level (HbA1c) in patients with non-affective psychosis” under the supervision of Dr. B. Z. Alizadeh and Prof. R. Bruggeman at University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands. In September 2017, he started with his Ph.D. project under the supervision of Dr. B. Z. Alizadeh, Prof. R. Bruggeman, Prof. M. Boezen, and Dr. E. Liemburg at the department of Epidemiology and University Center Psychiatry at the UMCG. His research project was part of the Genetic Risk and Outcome of Psychosis (GROUP) national cohort study in the Netherlands. The project focus on data-driven, subphenotyping and polygenic risk score analyses in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, their unaffected siblings and healthy controls. His research focus is on epidemiological and statistical modeling of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, major depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. He has been co-authored in more than 30 papers. He also finished Senior Scientific Epidemiological Researcher (Epidemiologist B) training by the Netherlands Epidemiological Society (VvE). Additionally, he was a teaching assistant in Epidemiology and Applied Statistics course and co-supervised two research master degree theses. Moreover, he works for two years as SHARE Ph.D. council member. During his Ph.D. study, he got married to Kenean Tesfaye and have a handsome son (Noah Tesfa). Since September 2020, he is working as a postdoc at the department of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands. The project, coordinated by Dr. Nalan Bastürk, Prof. F. Peeters and Dr. S. van Bronswijk, investigates treatment effectiveness and dropout in patients with major depressive disorder. show More

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103

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7.13

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28

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

78.64

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