Research Fields: Biostatistics/Statistics, Ecological Modeling, Evolutionary Biology and Phylogenetics, Genomics and Genetics, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Population Genetics, Precision Medicine/Health
DE Student: Alex Guzman
PhD Students: Yun Deng, Maya Lemmon-Kishi, Andrew Vaughn, Kailey Ferger, Fiona Callahan
Rasmus Nielsen’s research focuses on statistical and computational aspects of evolutionary theory and genetics. One of the central problems he has been interested in is the molecular basis of evolutionary adaptation. What happens at the molecular levels as one species is transformed into another over evolutionary time? To address this question he has developed a number of computational methods and applied them to large scale genomic data, such as genomic comparisons of humans and chimpanzees. Rasmus Nielsen has also worked on statistical methods in other aspects of population genetics, medical genetics, phylogenetics, molecular ecology, and molecular evolution.
