Pontus Skoglund
Senior Group Leader at The Francis Crick Institute
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPontus Skoglund is a senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute who directs the Ancient Genomics Laboratory, combining ancient DNA and computational genomics to unravel key evolutionary events that shaped human societies and health. With over a decade of experience and a PhD in Evolutionary Genetics from Uppsala University, he has led high-impact population history research during postdoctoral work at Harvard and the Broad Institute, with publications in top journals like Nature, Cell, and Nature Genetics. He brings rare expertise at the intersection of field archaeology, lab-based ancient DNA recovery, and scalable computational analysis of complex admixture histories. Based in the UK, Pontus is known for translating deep-time genetic signals into insights relevant to modern population health and cultural transitions — often revealing surprising migratory links across the Americas, Pacific, and Africa.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology at Umeå UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Evolutionary Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Evolutionary Genetics at Uppsala University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (12)
genome10
genetic10
genomes10
metagenomics9
genomics9
bioinformatics9
population-genetics9
immunology8
statistics8
nextflow8
nf-core7
pipeline7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pontussk/PMDtools
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Compute postmortem damage patterns and decontaminate ancient genomes
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 7 months
genomesancientdamagegenomicsbioinformatics
pontussk/popstats
Jul 2015 - Sep 2018
Population genetic summary statistics
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
geneticstatisticssummary-statistics
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