People
Himani Sachdeva
himani.sachdeva@univie.ac.at |
I use mathematical models to understand how genetic variation is maintained in natural populations, how populations respond to selection, and the longer-term outcomes (local adaptation, speciation, extinction) that arise from the interplay of evolutionary and demographic processes acting over different spatio-temporal scales. I studied physics during my undergrad and obtained my PhD in statistical physics from TIFR Mumbai. Motivated by a broader interest in biodiversity and the processes that maintain it, I then switched to theoretical evolutionary genetics for my postdoc at IST Austria. I am currently a university assistant (senior postdoc) in the Mathematics and Biosciences Group at the University of Vienna. Beginning October 2025, I will be starting as an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Vienna. I am also a PI in an SFB consortium on polygenic adaptation which consists of experimental evolution, population genomics and theoretical genetics groups in and around Vienna. As part of an ERC funded project Genes in Space (starting October 2025), I am looking to work together with PhD students and postdocs (see also Positions). Please get in touch if you are interested! |
Juan Lijuan.li@univie.ac.at postdoc under SFB |