Rui Borges

Rui Borges is a Lecturer in Statistics at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, and a member of the Statistical Medicine and Molecular Biology group. His research focuses on reconciling population- and species-level processes in genomic sequence evolution.

• Population genetics
• Phylogenetics
• Stochastic processes
• Bayesian inference
• Bioinformatics

Rui develops theoretical models and computational methods to detect molecular signatures of evolutionary significance from large-scale genomic datasets. His work bridges mathematical theory with practical applications in molecular biology.