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Our Team
Visiting Researchers
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.
Associated Researchers
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.