Áki Láruson
Population Geneticist
Kópavogur, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolÁki Láruson is a population geneticist with 11 years’ experience studying the evolutionary biology of marine organisms, particularly invertebrates, and applying molecular-evolution theory to marine ecology. He currently works at the Marine & Freshwater Research Institute in Iceland after postdoctoral positions at the University of Iceland, Cornell, and Northeastern, and holds a PhD in Zoology from the University of Hawaii. Áki is the author of Population Genetics with R (OUP), reflecting his commitment to making quantitative population-genetic methods accessible to life scientists. His research blends field-driven questions about adaptation in aquatic environments with computational and theoretical approaches, often linking empirical data to models of molecular evolution. Based in Kópavogur, he brings a rare combination of hands-on marine research, teaching experience, and practical coding for reproducible genetic analysis.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Biology (General), B.Sc., Biology (General) at Humboldt State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Zoology (Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Zoology (Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology) at University of Hawaii at Manoa
English, Icelandic, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
marine8
evolution8
procedure7
genomics6
sequence6
bioinformatics6
fst6
population-genetics5
rcpp5
outliers5
nmf5
sequence-alignment4
bayesian4
slim4
sequencing3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
akijarl/PCA_exercise_code
Jul 2020 - Nov 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
TestTheTests/TTT_Offset_Vulnerability_GF_Sims
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:603 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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