Benjamin Peter
Group leader
Abteilung für Evolutionäre Genetik
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 507
E-Mail:
benjamin_peter@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Group leader: "Genetic Diversity through Space and Time" Personal web page: www.bpeter.org
Curriculum Vitae
Education & Employment
| since 11/2017 | Group Leader Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 01/2024-12/2025 | Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Rochester, USA |
| 10/2014-09/2017 | Postdoctoral scholar with John Novembre, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, USA |
| 08/2010-08/2014 | Ph.D. in Integrative Biology with a designated emphasis in Computational Biology and Genomics, University of California, Berkeley, USA Advisors: Rasmus Nielsen and Montgomery Slatkin Title: Inference from Two Non-Equilibrium Models in Population Genetics. |
| 08/2008-02/2010 | MSc in Ecology and Evolution University of Bern, Switzerland Advisor: Laurent Excoffier Title: Distinguishing between population bottleneck and population subdivision by a Bayesian model choice procedure. |
| 10/2005-08/2008 | BSc in Biology (with special qualification in Plant Sciences), University of Bern, Switzerland |
Grants and Fellowships
| 2022-2027 | ERC Starting Grant NEADMIX project (5 years, 1,498,000 EUR) |
| 2014-2016 | Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc Mobility fellowship (18 months, 76,000 USD) |