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Professor Jotun Hein is a Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Oxford, affiliated with University College. He holds a position in the Department of Statistics and is a leading researcher in computational molecular biology. Prior to Oxford, he was a lecturer at Aarhus University (1991–2001). His work spans stochastic and algorithmic aspects of molecular evolution, population genetics, and origins of life.
Research interests include statistical alignment, ancestral recombination graphs, evolutionary models, and computational approaches to studying genetic recombination. He has developed algorithms for analyzing sequence evolution with insertions, deletions, and substitutions. Notable contributions include methods for minimizing recombination events in phylogenetic analysis and reconstructing ancestral protein sequences using modern machine learning techniques.
His publications focus on genetic recombination in SARS-CoV-2, evolutionary models for multigene families, and computational models of life's origins. He collaborates with groups in computational biology and statistical genetics. His work has applications in epidemiology, virology, and drug discovery.
Key affiliations include the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Statistical Genetics and Epidemiology research groups at Oxford.
