Maarja Jõeloo is an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computational and Statistical Genomics group at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki. She obtained her PhD in 2024 from the University of Tartu, where she developed methods for genotyping microarray-based copy number variation (CNV) data and investigated the effects of rare CNVs on complex phenotypes in the Estonian Biobank.

Her current research focuses on the discovery and characterisation of structural variation and tandem repeats using both short- and long-read sequencing technologies. She is working on approaches to integrate complex and repetitive variants into biobank-scale cohorts to enable large-scale analyses of their effects on human traits and disease.

Integrating structural variants and tandem repeats into biobank-scale association studies