The Globe Institute of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
The Racimo Lab at the Globe Institute of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) specializes in inferring past evolutionary processes, with a particular focus on admixture and natural selection, using ancient and present-day genomes.
UCPH will serve as a source of knowledge transfer (study of selection signals; population genetics analyses; spatial and temporal simulations of demographic processes (WP2); interdisciplinary studies of human past (WP3)) to UTARTU, while benefitting from access to UTARTU data and opportunity to test its models and tools on the new region.
Associate professor at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen. His current research interests involve developing tests to detect patterns of ancient selection and creating methods to integrate functional and population genomic data, as well as inferring demographic parameters using present-day and ancient human genomes.
Member of the Racimo group as a postdoc, fascinated by the power of ancient DNA as a tool to understand complex patterns of evolutionary history across space and time, and in developing new techniques combining ancient DNA with data from archaeology, ecology and climate studies.
Samantha Scott Reiter is a prehistoric archaeologist who works with themes which are also prevalent in our world today: identity, mobility, culture change and what it means socially and culturally when people travel/do not travel. She is a part of the National Museum of Denmark’s Mobility Research Group, and has written many scientific articles.