Aida Andres

Aida Andrés is an evolutionary population geneticist that investigates how populations evolve and adapt to their environment. She is Professor and Director of the UCL Genetics Institute (UGI), Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE). She is also a member of the Centre for Computational Biology and the Human Evolution at UCL Network.

She obtained her PhD from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Jaume Bertranpetit. After two postdoctoral positions, at Cornell University (NY, USA) in the group of Prof. Andrew G. Clark and the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH (MD, USA) with Dr Eric Green, in 2010 she launched her research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany), under the direction of Prof. Svante Paabo. 

Selected positions of trust include: Since 2025: Director, UCL Genetics Institute;  Since 2021: Associate Editor, Genome Biology and Evolution; Since 2022:  Member of the BBSRC Pool of Experts that constitute panels for grant funding; 2019-2025 Co-director, London Centre for Ecology and Evolution; 2021-2025 Head of the EDI team of GEE; 2021-2025 External Examiner, University of Sussex.