Principal Investigator

Jeffrey D. Jensen – Beginning research as a BSc student at the Univ of Arizona (advised by Michael Nachman) and as an undergraduate research abroad fellow at the Univ of Edinburgh (advised by Brian Charlesworth), Jeff went on to earn a PhD at Cornell in 2006 studying population genetics (advised by Chip Aquadro and Carlos Bustamante), followed by postdoctoral research as an NSF Biological Informatics Fellow at UCSD and UC Berkeley (advised by Doris Bachtrog, Peter Andolfatto, and Rasmus Nielsen). Jeff founded the Jensen Lab in 2009, and in 2016 re-located the group from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) to Arizona State Univ (ASU), where he is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences, a core member of the Center for Evolution & Medicine (CEM), and an affiliated member of the Center for Mechanisms of Evolution (CME). The Jensen Lab works in theoretical and computational population genetics and evolutionary genomics, with previous funding from the European Research Council (ERC), Swiss NSF, DARPA, DoD, NSF, and NIH. The Lab is currently funded primarily by an NIH Established-Investigator MIRA (R35) award. googlescholar   pubmed  

Research Scientist

Vivak Soni – Beginning research as a MSc student at Imperial College in Bioinformatics, Viv went on to earn a PhD at the University of Sussex in 2021 studying human population genomics (advised by Adam Eyre-Walker). Following three years of postdoctoral research in the Jensen Lab, Viv was appointed as a Research Scientist in 2024. His work is focused on statistical method development, evolutionary modeling, as well as on large-scale computational genomic analyses.  pubmed

Postdoctoral Researchers

 

Adriana Calahorra-Oliart – Beginning research as a BSc/MSc student at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) in Evolutionary Biology, Adriana went on to earn a PhD at UNAM in 2022 studying molecular and morphological evolution in bats (advised by Livia León-Paniagua), followed by postdoctoral research in bioinformatics at the Univ of North Carolina (advised by Laurel Yohe). In the Jensen Lab, Adriana is focused on evolutionary modeling as well as on large-scale computational genomic analyses. googlescholar

John Terbot II – Beginning research as a BSc student at Ohio State Univ in Entomology and Evolution, Terbot went on to earn a PhD at the Univ of Kentucky in 2021 studying social behavior in pine sawflies (advised by Catherine Linnen), followed by postdoctoral research at the Univ of Montana working on within-patient SARS-CoV-2 population genomics (co-advised together with Jeff Good and Brandon Cooper). In the Jensen Lab, Terbot is focused on evolutionary modeling as well as on large-scale computational genomic analyses. pubmed

Undergraduate Researcher

Devangana Shah – Devangana is a BSc student in Biological Sciences gaining research experience in the Jensen Lab, with a focus on the inference of demography and selection from population genomic data.