{"id":2087,"date":"2025-09-03T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:14:27","slug":"new-postdoctoral-researcher-joins-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/new-postdoctoral-researcher-joins-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Francesco Giannelli, our new postdoctoral researcher in interdisciplinary genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Francesco-Giannelli-s-20250901.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Francesco-Giannelli-s-20250901.jpg 480w, https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Francesco-Giannelli-s-20250901-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup>Francesco Giannelli<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>Francesco Giannelli defended his PhD on &#8220;The role of expansion dynamics in shaping genetic diversity and load accumulation: insights from two Lessepsian invaders&#8221; at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, Italy, in May 2025. He investigated how expansion dynamics affect neutral and deleterious genetic diversity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, he joined the Centre and Carina Schlebusch&#8217;s Lab in Uppsala. Francesco has experience working with multiple animal species and in various evolutionary contexts, and specialises in forward simulations with SLiM, particularly in continuous-space modelling. His current project aims to explore the expansion of Bantu-speaking populations in sub-Saharan Africa, integrating genomic, linguistic, and spatial data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Giannelli defended his PhD on &#8220;The role of expansion dynamics in shaping genetic diversity and load accumulation: insights from two Lessepsian invaders&#8221; at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,69],"tags":[83,82,150,149],"class_list":["post-2087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chp","category-people","tag-africa","tag-bantu","tag-postdoc","tag-slim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centerforthehumanpast.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}