Professor Greger Larson

About

Professor Greger Larson is Professor of Evolutionary Genomics at the School of Archaeology and Director of the Wellcome Trust Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network at Oxford University. He is also a Senior Nicolas Kurti Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. 

His research interests include evolutionary genomics; ancient DNA; domestication; human and animal dispersal; and phylogenetics.

At Palaeo-BARN (the Wellcome Trust Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network at Oxford University) work involves combining the resolution afforded by DNA sequences and fine-scale morphological variation with the time depth of archaeology and palaeontology. Doing so allows researchers to establish the patterns of DNA and morphological variance through time and space and take advantage of a range of bioinformatic approaches to answer long-standing questions related to how, when, and where evolutionary processes (including domestication) took place that have led to the creation of the modern world.

Professor Larson was previously an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow in Uppsala, Sweden and was a Reader at Durham University.

He received his MSt in World Archaeology and PhD in Zoology at Oxford, and a BA in Environment, Economics, and Politics at Claremont McKenna College (California).