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Forensic and Genetic Research

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Éadaoin Harney
23andMe (United States)
2
Jérémy Choin
Harvard University
3
Joshua D. Kapp
University of California, Santa Cruz
4
Anthony Wilder Wohns
Stanford University
5
Luka Papac
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
6
Lehti Saag
Estonian Biocentre
7
Eirini Skourtanioti
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
8
Wangjie Hu
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
9
Marcos Araújo Castro e Silva
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
10
Selina Carlhoff
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Rising Stars Papers

1
North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period
Science Advances|2025
9 cit.
2
Genetic and geographical origins of Eurasia’s influential Yamna culture
Nature|2025
1 cit.
3
The genetic history of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5,000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility
Cell|2025
1 cit.
4
Rootless hair as a reliable source of forensic genetic information
Genome biology|2026
1 cit.
5
The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans
Nature|2026
1 cit.
6
Additional file 1 of Rootless hair as a reliable source of forensic genetic information
Figshare|2026
0 cit.
7
Additional file 1 of Rootless hair as a reliable source of forensic genetic information
Figshare|2026
0 cit.
8
The genetic legacy of the 17th-century colonial capital of St. Mary’s City
Current Biology|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Choongwon Jeong
Seoul National University
2
Qiaomei Fu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
3
Shane McCarthy
Wellcome Sanger Institute
4
Ruoyun Hui
University of Cambridge
5
Priya Moorjani
University of California, Berkeley
6
Hannes Svardal
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
7
Nick Patterson
Broad Institute
8
Mait Metspalu
Estonian Biocentre
9
Steffi Grote
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
10
Fabrizio Mafessoni
University of Trieste

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads
BMC Bioinformatics|2023
1.8k cit.
2
The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene
eLife|2022
138 cit.
3
Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors
Nature Communications|2022
123 cit.
4
Bronze and Iron Age population movements underlie Xinjiang population history
Science|2022
107 cit.
5
Human genetic history on the Tibetan Plateau in the past 5100 years
Science Advances|2023
96 cit.
6
Reconstructing the history of founder events using genome-wide patterns of allele sharing across individuals
PLoS Genetics|2022
64 cit.
7
Evolving ancient DNA techniques and the future of human history
Cell|2022
53 cit.
8
Reconstructing the Genetic Relationship between Ancient and Present-Day Siberian Populations
Genome Biology and Evolution|2024
46 cit.
9
Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death
Science Advances|2024
42 cit.
10
Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium
Cell|2025
40 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David Reich
Broad Institute
2
Svante Pääbo
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
3
Jérôme Goudet
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
4
Joseph M. Quattro
Center for Theoretical Physics
5
Johannes Krause
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
6
Eske Willerslev
University of Copenhagen
7
Mark Stoneking
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
8
Carlos D. Bustamante
Galena Biopharma (United States)
9
Matthias Meyer
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
10
Rasmus Nielsen
University of Copenhagen

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software <scp>structure</scp>: a simulation study
Molecular Ecology|2005
22.1k cit.
2
Analysis of molecular variance inferred from metric distances among DNA haplotypes: application to human mitochondrial DNA restriction data.
Genetics|1992
14k cit.
3
Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies
Nature Genetics|2006
10.7k cit.
4
FSTAT (Version 1.2): A Computer Program to Calculate F-Statistics
Journal of Heredity|1995
7.7k cit.
5
Population Structure and Eigenanalysis
PLoS Genetics|2006
5.7k cit.
6
FSTAT, a Program to Estimate and Test Gene Diversities and Fixation Indices (Version 2.9. 3)
Medical Entomology and Zoology|2001
5k cit.
7
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
Science|2010
4.6k cit.
8
ANGSD: Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data
BMC Bioinformatics|2014
3.3k cit.
9
Ancient Admixture in Human History
Genetics|2012
3.2k cit.
10
<scp>hierfstat</scp>, a package for <scp>r</scp> to compute and test hierarchical <i> F</i>‐statistics
Molecular Ecology Notes|2004
2.7k cit.

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