Aida Andres

Aida Andrés studied Biology at the Universitat de Barcelona and obtained her PhD from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, also in Barcelona. After postdoctoral positions at Cornell University and the USA National Institutes of Health, in 2010 she moved to Leipzig (Germany) to join the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Her group studies genomes, both ancient and modern, to understand how humans and other primates have biologically adapted to their particular natural environments. Her group investigates different aspects of genetic adaptation, but she is particularly interested in the selection mechanisms that create genetic and phenotypic differences among individuals of the same population (balancing selection) and among populations of the same species (local adaptation).