About me: I am an established researchers with more than ten years of research experience in the field of Molecular Anthropology and Human Population Genomics. My research interests are based on genomic inference from present day and ancient humans and involve i) the human-neanderthal interaction; ii) the characterization of the Italian past genomic landscape and iii) the excavation of ancient and ongoing genomic signatures from the genomes of present day individuals. Current teaching: Molecular Anthropology (6 CFU) Computational Human Evolution (6 CFU). Antropologia (Titolare: 6 CFU). Current and past positions: 2024 - current Full Professor in Molecular Anthropology. Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy 2020 - 2024 Associate Professor in Molecular Anthropology. Dept. of Biology, University of Padova, Italy 2016 - current Associate Professor (now Visiting) and Head of the Modern Human Population Genetics Unit. Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Estonia. 2017 - 2020 RTDb (Tenure-track Researcher) in Molecular Anthropology. Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy 2014 – 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow within the ERC AdvG funded project “MALADAPTED”. Division of Biological Anthropology. University of Cambridge, UK 2013 – 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow. Human Evolution Team. The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK. Education: 2013 - PhD In Biological Anthropology at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2009 - Molecular Biology degree at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy 2009 - MSc in Biomolecular Science and Technologies at University of Pisa, Italy 2007 - BA in Molecular Biology at University of Pisa, Italy Scientific output (26/06/2025): 110 publications, h-index: 37, total citations: 4778. Awards: 2021 Antonio Feltrinelli Giovani (Accademia dei Lincei) – Award for Biology 2017 Estonian National Scientific Prize 2013 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research - Semifinalist 2012 ASHG Cotterman Award for the best Research Paper published by a junior scientist in 2012 on the AJHG

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Molecular Anthropology, Human Population Genomics, Ancient DNA, Computational Genomics, Natural Selection, Human Biodemography.

Physical Anthropology: analyses of ancient samples from Italian necropoles available at the Anthropology Museum of the University of Padova. For further info please write an email to the museum curator, Dr. Nicola Carrara, Cc me. Molecular Anthropology: genetic diversity in worldwide human populations (with particular focus on Estonian, Ethiopian and Italian populations); interaction of ancient and modern autosomic haplotypes; analyses of whole genome data available from the literature and recently published. Prior knowledge of at least one programming language (R, Python, Perl, C++..) and survival skills within a Unix environment are mandatory pre-requisites.

Last update: 06/03/2025