Kelley Harris

Kelley Harris, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Herbold Computational Biology Program at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch) and an Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. She is affiliated with the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutch and the Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center (TDS IRC).

Research Interests:

• Population genetics and evolutionary history in humans and other species
• Genetic mutation mechanisms (spontaneous/exposure-driven mutagenesis)
• Impact of demography, inbreeding, and hybridization on natural selection
• Statistical models for genome and population evolution

Education:

• PhD in Applied Mathematics with Computational Biology emphasis, University of California, Berkeley (2015)
• M.Phil in Biological Science, Cambridge University (2011)
• AD in Mathematics, Harvard College (2009), Magna cum laude