Emilia Huerta-Sanchez

Emilia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at the University of California Merced. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University under the supervision of Carlos Bustamante and Rick Durrett. After her PhD, she joined the laboratory of Rasmus Nielsen as a postdoctoral fellow. Her current research interests involve detecting and characterizing natural selection in human populations and estimating human demographic histories.