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School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences

Dr Matteo Fumagalli

Matteo

Senior Lecturer in Genetics

Email: m.fumagalli@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8342
Room Number: 5.01, Fogg Building
Website: https://mfumagalli.github.io/

Profile

I graduated in biomedical engineering from Politecnico di Milano - Italy (PhD, 2011). I then moved to UC Berkeley for a postdoc position with Professor Rasmus Nielsen funded by EMBO. In 2014 I returned to Europe as a research fellow with Professor Francois Balloux at UCL funded by HFSP and jointly supervised by Professor Frances Brodsky with funding from NIH. I moved to Imperial College London in 2016 and then became Lecturer in Quantitative Evolution at Silwood Park in 2017. I joined Queen Mary University of London as Senior Lecturer in Genetics in 2021. I am also an affiliated fellow at the Digital Environment Research Institute (DERI).

In my research, I use statistics and computer science to solve complex questions in human genetics and evolutionary biology. I am a strong advocate of open-source and open-access science initiatives such as Peer Community In. I often deliver outreach activities on human evolution at local communities and organise STEM-career events to secondary school pupils.

Undergraduate Teaching

Evolution (BIO113)

Essentials skills in biomedicine (BMD100)

Research projects (BIO600/BMD600)

Postgraduate Teaching

Statistics for Biologists (BIO724P)

Bioinformatics Software Development Group Project (BIO727P)

Statistics and Data Analysis (BIO773P)

Research projects (BIO702P)

 

Supervision

Yuemin Li (PhD student)

Amelia Eneli (EngD student)

Roudin Sarama (PhD student)

Janeesh Kaur Bansal (PhD student - secondary supervisor)

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Pui Chung Siu (Junior Research Assistant, 2023)

Collaborators

Michael DeGiorgio (Florida Atlantic University)

Sara Mathieson (Haverford College)

Austin Burt (Imperial College London)

Grants

NSFDEB-NERC: "Machine learning tools to discover balancing selection in genomes from spatial and temporal autocorrelations" 2023-2026

NERC Exploring the frontiers of environmental research: "Generative adversarial networks for demographic inferences of nonmodel species from genomic data" 2023

The Leverhulme Trust Research Grant: "A deep learning approach to quantify natural selection in Latin Americans" 2018-2022

Human Frontier Science Program postdoctoral fellowship 2014-2016

European Molecular Biology Organization postdoctoral fellowship 2012-2013

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