I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. My main research interest is to better understand the evolution of populations of small effective size, under forces such as drift, selection and mutation, using both quantitative and genomic approaches. Specifically, I want to study the evolution and architecture of the mutational load under inbreeding, and how evolutionary forces shape diversity and survivability in small populations.

During my PhD and following postdoc, I have used both computational and experimental approaches to study processes like inbreeding depression and genetic purging, as well as management strategies for fragmented populations. Currently, I am using genomic data to study the nature and evolution of de novo mutations and structural variation. My aim is to combine all this learnt knowledge to pursue my own research projects.

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