Dr. Thibaut Jombart

Works at – Lecturer at Imperial College London

Teaches – Genetic Data Analysis Using R (GDAR)

Thibaut is a Lecturer in genetic analysis at the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London. His early career focussed on developing multivariate methods for analysing genetic data, including spatial genetic patterns, group structure, and the phylogenetic comparative method.

His current work aims to exploit pathogen genome sequences to understand the spatial-temporal dynamics of infectious diseases such as influenza, plague, or the ongoing West African Ebola outbreak. He is involved in the development of a number of R packages including adegenet, adephylo, geoGraph, outbreaker, OutbreakTools, bmmix, episerve (author) and ade4, and phylobase (contributor).