Research

PhD student in project B6 of the CRC 1211 - Earth Evolution at the dry limit with focus on stochastic and analytical modelling of population genetic dynamics in sub-structured populations. In particular, I analyze and develop models that describe the evolution of multicopy gene families.

 

Vita

since 2020 PhD student with T. Wiehe at University of Cologne / Institute for Genetics

2020 Master of Science Mathematics at University of Cologne

• Master thesis: 'A local time isomorphism theorem of the vertex reinforced jump process random interlacement', supervised by A. Drewitz

2018-2020 Researcher with T. Wiehe at University of Cologne / Institute for Genetics

2017 Bachelor of Science Mathematics at University of Bonn

• Bachelor thesis: 'Random tiling of the Aztec Diamond and the GUE minor process', supervised by P. Ferrari

2015-2019 Lecture assistant at University of Bonn and University of Cologne

 

Conference presentations

2019 Poster: Probabilistic Modeling In Genomics in Aussois (France)

2022 Speaker: Mathematical And Computational Evolutionary Biology in Chateau d'Oex (Switzerland)

2022 Speaker: Annual SPP 1590 Colloquium in Bielefeld (Germany)

 

Publications

Otto M, Zheng Y, Wiehe T (2022)
Recombination, selection and the evolution of tandem gene arrays
Genetics