Dr Thibaut Jombart

I am a biometrician working on statistical genetics of pathogen populations. I am currently working as a research associate with Neil Ferguson, Christophe Fraser and Simon Cauchemez. My work aims to develop novel statistical approaches for extracting information from genomic data in general, and from pathogen genomes in particular. I am also interested in using simulations to understand which and how biological processes shape the genetic diversity observed in biological populations. My other interests include multivariate analysis, spatial statistics and phylogenetics. 

My research currently focusses on integrating genetics into infectious disease epidemiology for i) the reconstruction of transmission trees and ii) the inference of the population dynamics and evolution of pathogen populations.

Lastly, I am involved in the development of several packages: 

- adegenet (author): multivariate analysis for genetic/genomic data

- adephylo (author): tools for testing and describing the  phylogenetic signal

- geoGraph (author): large-scale modelling of spatial data

- ade4 (contributor): multivariate analysis, graphics, spatial statistics

- phylobase (contributor): handling and analyses of phylogenetic comparative data

- sedaR (contributor): spatial statistics for ecological data [under development]

 

More information is available from my  webpage.