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David Comas obtained his B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Barcelona (UB), where he also completed his Ph.D. in the Animal Biology Department (Anthropology Unit) in 1997. He undertook predoctoral and postdoctoral research at the Zoologisches Institut (LMU, Munich), the Anthony Nolan Trust-Royal Free Hospital (London), and the Department of Forensic Medicine (University of Helsinki), studying human population genetics. In 2001, he was awarded a “Ramon y Cajal” position at the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MELIS-UPF), where he is now a Full Professor. He served as Director of the Ph.D. program in Biomedicine (2007-2016), Vice-Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (2014-2016), Director of the Department of MELIS-UPF (2016-2022), Director of the UPF Doctoral School (2023-2024). Since 2024 he is the Vice-rector for teaching and research staff at the UPF.

His research focuses on analyzing human genome diversity to understand the genomic and population processes responsible for this diversity and to establish the population and epidemiological consequences of human genetic variability. His main research areas include human genome diversity, population genetics, genome variation and disease susceptibility, and genome evolution and disease

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