Cesar Fortes-Lima

Cesar Fortes-Lima, PhD, is an instructor at Johns Hopkins University (USA) and an associate researcher at Uppsala University (Sweden). His main research interests lie in studying human evolution, population genomics, biostatistics, and biological anthropology. He has contributed to our understanding of historical movements and admixture events that shaped the current genetic structure of worldwide populations. In particular, his work involves analysing dense genotype and whole-genome sequencing data from diverse ethnolinguistic groups in Africa and the Americas, including examination of present-day and ancient DNA from these regions. He has also developed effective population genetic methods to infer the demographic history of populations impacted by key evolutionary processes such as admixture.