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General Information

Full Name Iker Rivas-González
Languages English, Spanish, Basque, Danish

Education

  • 2023 - present
    Postdoc
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
    • Primate evolution
  • 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
  • 2018 - 2021
    MSc in Bioinformatics
    Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
    • Advanced phylogenomics
    • Big data analysis
    • Algorithmic engineering
  • 2014 - 2018
    BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    University of the Basque Country, Spain
    • Protein engineering
    • Metabolism
    • Biotechnology
    • Physiology

Experience

  • 2022
    Visiting PhD Student
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    • John Wakeley
    • David Reich and Nick Patterson
  • 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

  • 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

  • Speciation
    • Phylogenetic reconstruction
    • Species tree
    • Selection
    • Population genomics
    • Incomplete lineage sorting
    • Admixture
  • Modeling
    • Hidden Markov models
  • Data Visualization
    • ggplot2
    • TidyTuesday