A warm welcome to Jeff Jensen...
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Jeffrey Jensen has been appointed Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Life Sciences in EPFL’s School of Life Sciences. His main area of research is molecular evolution.
The genomic revolution is currently producing enormous quantities of data, a real gold mine to scientists working in many biomedical fields. Statistical and bioinformatics analyses of these data are opening up new innovative avenues for investigating molecular and physiological phenomena and individual susceptibility to certain diseases. Jeffrey Jensen has contributed widely to the development of mathematical concepts used to analyze the evolution of the genome in given populations. He has a particular interest in modeling the positive natural selection process and its consequences on mutations in the genome.