Dr Anders Eriksson

Dr Anders Eriksson obtained his PhD from University of Gothenburg and joined the Department of Marine Ecology as a postdoctoral fellow in 2007. In 2009 he joined the Department of Zoology in Cambridge, UK, as a postdoctoral fellow to work on spatially explicit population genetic models. He focussed on reconstructing the impact of climate on the out-of-Africa expansion of anatomically modern humans, but worked also on the effect of ancient population structure on patterns of genetic similarity between human genomes and the Neanderthal, domestication of the horse, and the spread of malaria.

Between 2013 and 2016 the position was shared between Cambridge and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, where he led the population genetic analysis in the Pan-Asian Genome Initiative (PAPGI).

In 2017 he obtained a Lecturer position at Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at King's.

His current research is focussed on how adaptations to past climates, diets and pathogens have shaped genetic diversity in contemporary populations and the role of these changes in common metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.