Rosario Aronica
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Rosario Aronica
DPhil Student
Rosario joined the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science in 2025 as a Clarendon-funded DPhil student in Population Health. His doctoral research focuses on identifying digital sleep phenotypes using wrist actigraphy in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis, with the aim of predicting transition to full-blown illness and assessing whether targeted sleep interventions can prevent this progression. He is co-supervised by Professor Melinda Mills and Professor Aiden Doherty from the Nuffield Department of Population Health, alongside Professor Philip McGuire and Professor Amedeo Minichino from the Department of Psychiatry.
His research interests encompass sleep in mental health, psychopharmacology, and digital technologies, and he has authored several academic publications on evidence synthesis, meta-analyses, psychopharmacology, and digital applications in psychiatry.
Rosario completed his medical degree at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome and his specialist training in psychiatry at the University of Milan. He moved to Oxford in 2023, joining the Department of Psychiatry as a Visiting Academic and the NIHR Oxford Clinical Research Facility as an Honorary Specialty Doctor. He currently works as a Consultant Psychiatrist with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
His long-term goal is to integrate insights from population health, psychiatry, and digital health to advance personalised and preventive approaches to mental health care.