Iker Rivas-González
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution,
Leipzig (Germany)
Hello there! I’m a bioinformatician primarily researching on primate phylogenomics and population genetics. My interests include:
- Speciation processes, incomplete lineage sorting, admixture and introgression.
- Primate, bird and marsupial phylogenomics.
- Hidden Markov models (e.g. SMC).
- Coalescent theory and phase-type distributions.
- Data visualization.
You can check out my latest publications here, and some of the software I have developed here. Feel free to connect with me over email, GitHub, Twitter or Mastodon.
latest news
Nov 6, 2023 | I have officially started my postdoc at the Max Planck Insitute for Evolutionary Anthopology in Leipzig. As part of the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution, I will be analyzing the evolutionary history of primates, linking observational field data from natural primate populations to newly generated whole-genome sequencing data. |
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Sep 25, 2023 | Today, I have successfully defended my PhD thesis, titled “Ancestral Multi-Species Population Genomics”. I am full of joy and thankful to everyone that has accompanied me during these years. |
Jun 2, 2023 | I’m extremely happy to see our primate ILS paper published together with other 9 papers in this special issue about primate genomics! |
Feb 22, 2023 | My first first-author publication is out! If you are interested in modeling phase-type distributions in population genetics, you can check out the PhaseTypeR package and its accompanying paper. |