Anastasia Ignatieva
I am an Associate Professor of Statistical Genomics at the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Somerville College.
Departmental profile
Email: anastasia.ignatieva@stats.ox.ac.uk
Office: 2.06
Previously, I studied at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh, and did my PhD on the Oxford-Warwick Statistics Programme. I was then a postdoc at the University of Oxford for two years, and a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Glasgow for one year.
My research lies at the intersection of probability, statistics and computation, motivated by applications in genetics and focused on developing methods that help us understand aspects of evolution by analysing genomes. Specifically, I'm interested in reconstructing genealogies from large-scale sequencing data, and coming up with methods that use these genealogies for inference of evolutionary events and processes.
My CV and Google Scholar.
If you are interested in doing a DPhil (PhD) in statistical methods applied to genetics, please consider applying to the DPhil programme at the Department of Statistics, or the StatML CDT. Feel free to get in touch if you have any specific questions or want to discuss your application, but this is not necessary.
I am not currently hiring postdocs, but will be soon (for autumn 2026 start).
I organise the department's Genetics and Epidemiology seminar: you can see the list of past and upcoming talks here.