Jeffrey D. Jensen

Jeff is a population geneticist, broadly interested in the study of adaptation. He received a BS / BA from the University of Arizona in 2002 in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Biological Anthropology, respectively, and was co-advised by Michael Nachman (University of Arizona) and Brian Charlesworth (University of Edinburgh). Jeff earned his PhD in Molecular Biology & Genetics at Cornell University in 2006, co-advised by Charles Aquadro (Cornell) and Carlos Bustamante (Stanford). He did his postdoc work as an NSF Biological Informatics Fellow at UCSD and UC Berkeley advised by Doris Bachtrog (Berkeley), Peter Andolfatto (Princeton), and Rasmus Nielsen (Berkeley). He founded the Jensen Lab as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the Program for Bioinformatics & Integrative Biology in 2009, and re-located the lab to EPFL in the Fall of 2011