Jonathan Flint FRS[2] is a British behavior geneticist and Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
[1][3] He is also a senior scientist in the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
[4][5] Flint is known for his research on the genetics of complex traits in mice and major depressive disorder in humans.
In 2015, he and his colleagues published a study that was the first to link two genetic variants to this disorder.
[6] In 2016, he left his post as director of the Psychiatric Genetics Group at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics to join UCLA.