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Our Team

 
Mattias Jakobsson
PI and the group leader
 
Per Sjödin
Researcher
 
Carolina Bernhardsson
Bioinformatician
 
Luciana Simões
Postdoctoral researcher
 
Tina Saupe
Postdoctoral researcher
 
Nikola Vuković
PhD candidate
Sohini Ramachandran, Visiting researcher from Brown University, Providence, USA.

Sohini spent 6 months (from January to July 2019) in the lab and as a Natural Sciences Fellow in the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, studying the inference of demographic history using heterochronous samples and other population genetic problems. You can learn more about her research here.

Gulsah Merve Dal Kilinc, Visiting Post-doc from METU, Ankara, Turkey.

Gulsah spent several months in the lab (most recent 3 months in 2016) on an EMBO fellowship conducting work on ancient human data analyses.

Amy Goldberg, Visiting PhD student from Stanford, USA

Amy spent 5 month (2015) in our lab investigating aspects of archaic admixture.

Ricardo Valela, Visiting PhD-student from Madrid

Ricardo visited our lab from August to December 2013 working on stone-age human material.

Solenn Stoeckel, Visiting Post Doc

Solenn spent 6 months (2012) in the lab developing a new method to search for signs of selection in complete genome data.

Jakobsson Lab Alumni

(Mattias Jakobsson primary supervisor)

Luciana Simoes

PhD March 2023 (→ postdoc at UU)

James McKenna

PhD Jan 2023 (→ postdoc Trondheim U)

Rita Peyroteo Stjerna

postdoc 2016-2022 (→ postdoc at Göteborg U)

Nina Hollfelder

postdoc 2019-2022 (→ at SciLifeLab UU)

Tiina Mattila

postdoc 2018-2021 (→ postdoc at Oulu U)

Maximilian Larena

postdoc 2014-2021, (→ researcher at UU)

Gwenna Breton

PhD Sept 2020, (→ bioinformatician at Gothenburg U)

Alexandra Coutinho

PhD Jan 2020

Federico Sanchez Quinto

postdoc 2015-2019 (→ at Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Mexico City)

Arielle Munters

bioinformatician 2015-2019 (→ bioinformatician at Uppsala Hospital)

Thijessen Naidoo

PhD Nov 2018 (→ at SciLife Lab)

Torsten Günther

2013-2018 (→ researcher at UU)

Emma Svensson

postdoc 2014-2018 (→ at UU admin)

Nina Hollfelder

PhD Feb 2018 (→ bioinformatician at Uppsala U)

Helena Malmström

postdoc 2012-2019 (→ researcher at UU)

Carina Schlebusch

postdoc 2010-2015 (→ professor at UU)

Marta Burri

postdoc 2016 (→ postdoc at MPI Jena)

Agnès Sjöstrand

PhD Nov 2015 (→ postdoc at INSERM, Paris)

Lucie Gattepaille

PhD Oct 2015 (→ scientist at Uppsala Monitoring Centre)

Irene Urena

postdoc 2015-2016 (→ postdoc at CIBIO/U Porto)

Pontus Skoglund

PhD Oct 2013 (→ PI at Crick Institute, London)

Sen Li

Dec PhD 2012 (→ at Copenhagen U)

Other Alumni
Tatiana Ruiz

Tatiana conducted her Master project in the lab working on ancient DNA analyses of human remains from the Scandinavian Funnel Beaker Culture. She is now conducting her PhD research at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Susanne Bjornerfeldt

Susanne worked as research engineer in the lab and continues this job now at the SciLife lab.

Olaf Thalmann

Olaf was in charge of the lab’s web presence and also developed Paleo-epigenomic ideas that he is now pursuing as an Assistant Professor at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poland.

Mario Vicente

Mario was a PhD student in the Lab, and he is now affiliated with the Schlebusch Lab.

Lena Granehäll

Lena worked as a research assistant in the ancient DNA lab for 1,5 years, followed by a PhD in ancient pathogens at the Mummy Institute at Eurac Reasarch, Bolzano.

Berenice Villegaz-Ramirez

Berenice was assisting us in the ancient lab for over a year and is now exploring the world for interesting opportunities, which she found in the Immler lab at Uppsala University

Irene Ureña Herradón

Irene was a research assistant in the ancient DNA lab for 1,5 years, then she worked as a postdoc with Catarina Ginja at CIBIO in Porto, Portugal. She continues her ancient DNA work on cattle.

Anders Sjölander

Anders conducted his MSc work with us and became a bioinformatician at the SciLifeLab.

Jingzi Xu

Jingzi was a MSc student in our lab.

Khalis Afnan

Khalis was a MEME Master student in our lab.

Robin Olsson

Robin worked as a bioinformatician in our lab for 1,5 year and has now a position at the KTH in Stockholm.

Jose Manuel Monroy Kuhn

Jose conducted his MSc in our lab and is now pursuing a PhD.

Joachim Karlsson

Joachim was a student involved in a bioinformatics project where he developed a method to systematically predict phenotypes based on SNP information.

Ayca Omrak

Ayca was a research assistant and is now a co-supervised PhD student.

Katie Owers

Katie investigated signs of selection and the potential impact of infectious diseases on indigenous African populations for her Master of Science degree.

Nicolas DuForet-Frebourg

Nicolas was a Master student in the lab during the spring 2011. He developed a metod for incorporating haploype information into population structure inference tools.

Hiba Babiker

Hiba conducted her Master project in the lab from July 2009 to June 2010. Her research focused on exploring patterns of variation in populations from East Africa, in particular from Sudan. Hiba is now a PhD-student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany.

Patrik Båtelsson

Patrik used simulations to study the colonization of Europe by anatomically modern humans during his Master of Science project.