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Carolin Kosiol is a Reader in Bioinformatics at the University of St Andrews, School of Biology. Her research bridges computer science, mathematics, and evolutionary biology, focusing on computational methods to study adaptation in organisms like great apes and fruit flies. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, with postdoctoral experience at Cornell University and a prior role as a Young Group Leader at the Vetmeduni Vienna. Her work develops evolutionary models that integrate phylogenetic and population genetic data to study speciation and population history.
- Education: Mathematics/Physics (University of Mainz), MSc High Performance Computing (Trinity College Dublin), PhD in Bioinformatics (Cambridge/EMBL-EBI).
- Research: Investigates adaptation across timescales, from experimental evolution to phylogenetic analysis, using genomic data to model evolutionary processes.
- Labs/Teams: Leads the Kosiol Lab, affiliated with the Centre for Biological Diversity and St Andrews Bioinformatics Unit.
Her research emphasizes polymorphism-aware models for species tree inference and collaboration with experimentalists on genomic datasets. Key projects include analyzing fruit fly adaptation and great ape genomes, as well as developing tools like Bait-ER and PoMo for evolutionary analysis.
