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Mahan Ghafari is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow and independent investigator leading the Ghafari Research Group in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford. He is based at the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and has additional affiliations with the Data Analytics Epidemiology Group and the Pandemic Sciences Institute, holding a college position as a Kemp Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences at Lincoln College. His research focuses on developing quantitative frameworks to study the molecular evolution of pathogens, particularly regarding their epidemic and pandemic potential. He integrates concepts of phylogenetics, population genetics, evolutionary theory, and structural biology to reconstruct evolutionary histories, trace pathogen origins from non-human reservoirs, and evaluate potential causes of outbreaks that evade existing therapeutics. Ghafari holds a BSc and an MSc in Physics, specializing in statistical physics and quantitative modeling of evolutionary biology, and completed his DPhil in Interdisciplinary Biosciences at the University of Oxford in 2022. His doctoral thesis concentrated on the quantitative analysis of viral molecular evolution.
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