Mattias Jakobsson
Assistant Professor
Director of Studies, EBC Graduate School on Genomes and Phenotypes
Department of Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC)
EBC Graduate School on Genomes and Phenotypes
Research interests
The research focuses on understanding evolutionary and demographic
processes by using mathematical models and developing and utilizing
statistical and computational methods for analyzing large genomic data
sets. Specifically, we are interested in:
- Human evolutionary genetics and inferring demographic history based population-genetic data.
- Theoretical population genetics.
- Developing methods for searching for genes targeted by recent selection.
- Models of founder events and their implications for patterns of genetic variation.
- The impact of demography on gene-mapping.
Background
2005-2008: Postdoc, Computational biology, Rosenberg Lab, University of Michigan.
2005: PhD, Genetics, Section for Evolutionary Genetics, Lund University.
2003-2004: Research visit at the Nordborg Lab, University of Southern California.
2001: MS Biology and Mathematics, Lund University.
