Mahan Ghafari
Kemp Junior Research Fellow In Medical Sciences at Department of Biology, University of Oxford
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMahan Ghafari is a computational evolutionary biologist and Kemp Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences at Oxford, with seven years’ experience deciphering pathogen evolution and pandemic potential. He leads a Wellcome Trust–funded research group that combines phylogenetics, population genetics theory, and genomic analysis to reconstruct viral histories and probe mechanisms behind persistent infections and reinfections. His background in physics (MSc) and interdisciplinary DPhil work gives him an uncommon quantitative edge for developing novel analytical tools at the interface of theory and pathogen genomics. Mahan has applied these skills across institutions from Emory and Cambridge to the Pandemic Sciences Institute and Public Health England, translating method development into insights with public-health relevance. Colleagues describe him as someone who deliberately bridges conceptual models and real-world genomic data to make evolutionary inference both robust and actionable.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
DPhill, Interdisciplinary Bioscience, DPhill, Interdisciplinary Bioscience at University of OxfordMSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at Emory UniversityBSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (5)
pathogen10
evolution5
translation5
react4
visualization3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mg878/PoW_model
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
mg878/Iran_study
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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