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 over different spatio-temporal scales.

I studied physics during my undergrad and obtained a 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, followed by a senior postdoc position in the Mathematics and Biosciences Group at the University of Vienna. I am currently 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 part of the SFB consortium on polygenic adaptation which consists of experimental evolution, population genomics and theoretical genetics groups in and around Vienna.

Juan Li

juan.li@univie.ac.at

postdoc under SFB

Parvathy Surendranadh

parvathy.surendranadh@univie.ac.at

postdoc

Francisco Iglesias Santos

francisco.iglesias.santos@univie.ac.at

PhD candidate