My research focuses on analysing population genomic and functional molecular data to answer pertinent questions in evolutionary biology and, more recently, cancer evolution. My research revolves around three main aspects of molecular evolution:

1. the study of the effects of mutations within and across species and their relationship to the mutation spectrum,

2. the impact of limited recombination on the efficiency of natural selection and patterns of DNA diversity, and

3. the description of mutation rate patterns along a genome and their major molecular determinants.

I have worked with human DNA diversity data, but also with genome sequences from chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit flies or mitochondrial genomes. After my first postdoc in Denmark with Kasper Munch, I continued my research career at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona with a Marie Curie grant, working on the same aspects but using thousands of genomes from human tumours.

I am now a ghostdoc in Ryan Gutenkunst's group at the University of Arizona, where I am developing statistical methods to estimate the distribution of fitness effects using DNA diversity patterns.