Sandra Oliveira
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Research interests
Human Evolutionary Genetics, Population Genetics, Paleogenomics, Evolutionary and Computational approaches to study Genomic, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity.
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Education and professional positions
| 2025 - present | Assistant Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2022 - 2025 | Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 2019 – 2022 | Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2013 – 2019 | Ph.D. in Biodiversity, Genetics, and Evolution, University of Porto, Portugal |
| 2013 – 2018 | Visiting Ph.D. student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2010 - 2012 | M.Sc. in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution, University of Porto, Portugal |
| 2007 – 2010 | B.Sc. in Biology, University of Porto, Portugal |
Selected publications
- Oliveira S, Marchi N, Excoffier L (2024). Assessing the limits of local ancestry inference from small reference panels. Mol Ecol Resour, 24 (6): e13981. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13981
- Oliveira S, Fehn AM, Amorim B, Stoneking M, Rocha J (2023). Genome-wide variation in the Angolan Namib Desert reveals unique pre-Bantu ancestry. Science Advances, 9 (38), eadh3822. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh3822
- Stoneking M*, Arias L*, Liu D*, Oliveira S*, Pugach I*, Rodriguez JJRB* (2023). Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (4), e2209475119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2209475119
- Oliveira S*, Nägele K*, Carlhoff S*, Pugach I, Koesbardiati T, Hübner A, Meyer M, Oktaviana AA, Takenaka M, Katagiri C, Murti DB, Putri RS, Mahirta, Petchey F, Higham T, Higham CFW, O'Connor S, Hawkins S, Kinaston R, Bellwood P, Ono R, Powell A, Krause J, Posth C, Stoneking M (2022). Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6 (7), 1024-1034. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01775-2
- Oliveira S, Hübner A, Fehn AM, Aço T, Lages F, Pakendorf B, Stoneking M, Rocha J (2019). The role of matrilineality in shaping patterns of Y chromosome and mtDNA sequence variation in southwestern Angola. European Journal of Human Genetics, 27 (3), 475-483. DOI: 10.1038/s41431-018-0304-2
- Oliveira S, Fehn AM, Aço T, Lages F, Gayà-Vidal M, Pakendorf B, Stoneking M, Rocha J (2018). Matriclans shape populations: Insights from the Angolan Namib Desert into the maternal genetic history of southern Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165 (3), 518-535. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23378
