EVOLTREE Online Seminar Series Spring 2026

Prof. Rasmus Nielsen is an evolutionary biologist and geneticist who studies human evolution, population genetics, and statistical genomics. He is best known for developing computational methods to detect natural selection in genomes and for his discoveries on human adaptation to high-altitude environments and ancient interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans. Prof Nielsen’s research integrates evolutionary theory, bioinformatics, and molecular biology to uncover the genetic basis of adaptation and diversity across species. He is Professor of Integrative Biology and Statistics at UC Berkeley and a member of the Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics. Prof Nielsen has  published more than 350 peer reviewed publications including many in Nature, Science, and Cell, and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences.

Links: https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/rasmus-nielsen