Lukas Metzger

I have a broad interest in population genomics and bioinformatics, focusing on the computational analysis of large datasets and the development of statistical inference methods. I finished my PhD at the Technical University of Munich, where I wrote my PhD thesis on simulation-based inference using whole genome polymorphism data.

Particularly, I am interested in understanding the feedback between ecology and genome evolution by studying non-model species exhibiting different ecological habitats, spatial structure and especially ecological and life-history traits. I develop inference methods to jointly estimate ecological parameters and past demographic events as well as speciation (with or without gene flow) events including life-history traits such as seed banking, dormancy, self-fertilization, change of selfing in time or the large variance in offspring production.