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Mathematics and
BioSciences Group

University of Vienna

Faculty of Mathematics
Nordbergstrasse 15
A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Max F. Perutz Laboratories
Dr. Bohrgasse 9
A-1030 Vienna, Austria

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Positions and Education

2011 - present Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Advisor: Joachim Hermisson, co-advisor: Magnus Nordborg
2010 - 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
Advisor: Joy Bergelson
2004 - 2009 PhD, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Thesis title: Human Genetic Adaptations to the Environment
Advisor: Anna Di Rienzo
2001 - 2004 MS, Biological Anthropology, University of Utah
Thesis title: Comparison of Oxidative Damage among European Populations from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data
Advisor: Alan R. Roger
1996 - 1999 BS, Biology, BA, Anthropology, University of Utah

Research Grants and Fellowships

2011 - 2014 MFPL VIPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
2011 - 2013 NSF International Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
2010 - 2011 V. Dropkin Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
2007 - 2008 American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship
2004 - 2006 NIH Genetics and Regulation Training Grant
2003 Glenn/Afar Summer Research Grant for the study of aging

Conferences and Workshops (oral presentations and invited talks)

2011 Evolution and Medicine Symposium, Society for the Study of Evolution, Norman, OK.
Adaptation to the Environment and Disease Risk in Human Populations (invited talk).
2011 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ.
Population Genomics of Adaptation (invited talk).
2010 Annual Meeting, Society for the Study of Evolution, Portland, Oregon.
A genome-wide scan for adaptations to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana.
2009 Annual Meeting, Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Iowa City, IA.
Adaptations to Climate and Diet across the Human Genome.
2009 Symposium entitled: What makes us human? Views from the genome, American Association of Physical Anthropology, Chicago, IL.
Genetic adaptations to spatially-varying selective pressures and the susceptibility to common diseases (invited talk, given on behalf of Anna Di Rienzo).

Teaching Experience (as a teaching assistant)

2006 Human Genetic Variation and Disease
2006 Human Genetics
2004 Biological Anthropology
2003 Human Evolutionary Ecology
2002 Cultural Anthropology

Service

Referee for Genetic Epidemiology, BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMC Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, PLoS Genetics, Biological Reviews; review editor for Frontiers in Genetics

Society Memberships

2007 - present Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2008 - present Society for the Study of Evolution