Harald Ringbauer
Research Group Leader at Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolHarald Ringbauer is a population geneticist and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, with a decade of experience developing computational methods for ancient DNA analysis. He builds and applies statistical and computational tools to reconstruct past human population and social structure from thousands of prehistoric genomes. Trained in physics and mathematics (Universität Wien) and holding a PhD in population genetics from IST Austria, he blends rigorous quantitative modeling with hands-on genomic data analysis. His work spans spatial demographic inference, long shared haplotype methods, and scalable pipelines for aDNA, enabling insights into migrations and kinship invisible to traditional archaeology. Colleagues value him for translating complex theory into practical tools that let researchers probe recent relatedness and migration across millennia.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Population Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Population Genetics at Institute of Science and Technology AustriaMaster of Science (MSc), Mathematik, 1.0, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematik, 1.0 at Universität Wien
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
pathogen9
bioconda9
package-management9
conda9
coverage7
sequence6
reproducible-science5
python4
mpi1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hringbauer/IBD-Analysis
Nov 2016 - May 2023
Contributions:113 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
hringbauer/ancIBD
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
Detecting IBD within low coverage ancient DNA data. Development Repository for software package that contains code for manuscript.
Contributions:5 PRs, 52 pushes, 29 comments in 2 years 1 month
adnasequencepythonancient-dnadna
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