Adam "Ben" Rohrlach

Mathematician, Statistician and Ancient DNA Researcher

CV


Employment

  • 2021-Present: Postdoctoral Researcher
    Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
  • 2024-Present: Adjunct Lecturer
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
  • 2016-2024: Associate Lecturer of Statistics
    School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
  • 2019-2020: Postdoctoral Researcher
    Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
  • 2012-2015: Teaching Assistant
    School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Education

  • PhD: 2014-2018 (University of Adelaide)
    Supervisors: Prof. Nigel Bean, Prof. Barbara Holland, Dr Jono Tuke
    Statistical Methods for Identifying Demographic Structure in DNA Sequence Alignments. 
  • M.Phil: 2012-2013 (University of Adelaide)
    Supervisors: Prof. Nigel Bean, Dr Jono Tuke
    Data driven model selection and parameter estimation using semi-automatic approximate
    Bayesian computation to reconstruct population dynamics from ancient DNA. 
  • B.MSc: 2019-2011 (University of Adelaide)
    Double major in Statistics and Applied Mathematics.