Instructors:
Mark Beaumontis currently a research fellow at the University of Reading, where he has been since 1999. He obtained his PhD in population genetics at the University of Nottingham in 1988. His main research focuses on how genetic information can be used to uncover the demographic history of populations, and how to disentangle the effects of demography and selection.
University of Reading, Reading, UK
Lounès Chikhi obtained his PhD working in population genetics of fish, in Montpellier. He is currently based at the IGC, with the Population and Conservation Genetics group. He held post-doctoral positions at the University of Ferrara, at Queen Mary and Westfield College and at the University College London. He is interested in the use of genetic data to improve our understanding of the past demographic history of different species, including our own. His main interests span from conservation genetics of wild and domesticated species to human recent evolutionary history.
Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, CNRS, Toulouse, FR
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, PT
Vitor Sousa is a PhD student working at the IGC and the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. He is interested in developing computational methods in order to draw inference on demographic parameters using genetic data, with applications in conservation genetics and human evolution.
Fac. Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, PT
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, PT