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General Information
| Full Name | Iker Rivas-González |
| Languages | English, Spanish, Basque, German, Danish |
Education
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2023 - present Postdoc
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany - Primate evolution
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2020 - 2023 PhD
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark - Genome-wide analyses of primates, birds and marsupials
- Phylogenomic reconstruction, selection and recombination
- Mathematical modelling: hidden Markov models and phase-type distributions
- Data visualization
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2018 - 2021 MSc in Bioinformatics
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark - Advanced phylogenomics
- Big data analysis
- Algorithmic engineering
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2014 - 2018 BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of the Basque Country, Spain - Protein engineering
- Metabolism
- Biotechnology
- Physiology
Experience
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2022 Visiting PhD Student
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - John Wakeley
- David Reich and Nick Patterson
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2020 - 2022 Teaching Assistant
Aarhus University, Denmark - Data Science in Bioinformatics (Fall of 2020 and 2021)
- Statistical and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (Spring of 2020, 2021 and 2022)
Attended Meetings
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2024 Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics (award for best talk)
Vienna, Austria -
2023 EPIC-DK (talk)
Copenhagen, Denmark -
2023 SMBE Meeting (symposium organizer and poster)
Ferrara, Italy -
2023 Phase-type distributions with a view to population genetics (talk)
Copenhagen, Denmark -
2023 Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics (talk)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY -
2022 SMBE Everywhere GS4 (talk)
Virtual -
2022 The Biology of Genomes (talk)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY -
2022 Probabilistic Modelling in Genomics (talk)
Oxford, NY -
2022 Three Minute Thesis Competition (talk)
Aarhus, Denmark -
2021 Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference (poster)
Aalborg, Denmark -
2021 SMBE Meeting (poster)
Virtual
Academic Interests
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Speciation
- Phylogenetic reconstruction
- Species tree
- Selection
- Population genomics
- Incomplete lineage sorting
- Admixture
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Modeling
- Hidden Markov models
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Data Visualization
- ggplot2
- TidyTuesday