Gabriel Renaud

Gabriel Renaud is an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), leading the Bioinformatics Modern and Ancient Genomes group within the DTU Microbes Initiative. His research focuses on computational genomics, ancient DNA analysis, and pangenome graph algorithms.

• Active projects: PhD supervision on algorithms for pangenomic graphs (2024-2027), genomes and genes (2022-2025)

Research Interests include:

• Population Genomics of Postglacial Eurasia
• Pangenome Graph Applications in Taxonomic Identification
• Next-Generation Sequencing Data Processing
• Ancient Environmental DNA Analysis
• Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Genetics

Publications (2023-2024) highlight work on:

• High-resolution taxonomic identification using mitochondrial pangenome graphs
• Population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark
• Ancient Clostridium DNA and tetanus toxin evolution
• Benchmarking NGS tools for ancient DNA

Supervision: Current main supervisor for four PhD students in bioinformatics and genomics.