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- Associate Professor of Ancient Plant Genomics
- Genetics, Evolution & Environment
- Div of Biosciences
- Faculty of Life Sciences
Hernán studied veterinary medicine and biology (1996-2006) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. He moved afterwards to the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, where he worked on ancient genomics of humans and archaic hominins under the supervision of Svante Pääbo and Michael Lachmann. Hernán obtained a PhD in evolutionary genetics from the University of Leipzig in 2012. Hernán then relocated as a postdoctoral researcher (2012-2014) at the MPI for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany, under the supervision of Detlef Weigel. There, he integrated plant evolutionary genomics and ancient DNA. From 2014 to 2019, Hernán led the Research Group for Ancient Genomics and Evolution at the MPI for Developmental Biology, before joining the UCL Centre for Life ́s Origins and Evolution in 2019.
Hernán contributes with seven lectures to the Methods in Ecology and Evolution (BIOL0006) module, where he introduces students to fundamental concepts in evolution. Hernán also contributes with one lecture on ancient DNA to the Fundamentals of Molecular Biology (BIOL0008) module.
01-AUG-2019 | Associate Professor of Ancient Plant Genomics | Genetics, Evolution and Environment | University College London, United Kingdom |
01-APR-2014 – 31-JUL-2019 | Group Leader | Molecular Biology | Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany |
01-MAR-2012 – 31-MAR-2014 | Postdoctoral researcher | Molecular Biology | Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany |
2012 | Doctor rerum naturalium | Universitat Leipzig | |
2006 | Master of Science | Universidad Nacional Colombia | |
2002 | Doctor of Veterinary Medicine | Universidad Nacional Colombia |