Kay Prüfer

Kay Prüfer is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His main research focus lies on the development and application of computational methods for the evolutionary analysis of genome sequences. He has contributed to the analysis of the chimpanzee, rhesus macaque and Neandertal genome sequences. More recently he has led the consortia to analyze the bonobo genome and the high coverage genome sequence of a Neandertal from the Altai mountains.