Evan Koch

Dr. Evan Koch is a population geneticist and computational biologist with a research focus on the genetic and evolutionary basis of human traits and diseases. He earned his PhD in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago in the lab of John Novembre, developing theoretical and empirical approaches to describe how mutation, selection, and drift affect genetic variation and how mutation and population history shape the distribution of complex trait variation. As a postdoctoral research fellow with Shamil Sunyaev at Harvard Medical School, he worked on a fine-scale mutation rate map for the human genome and created population genetics models and statistical methods using GWAS data to study selection. At Yale School of Medicine, his group develops quantitative methods that bridge classical population genetics with contemporary genomic and phenotypic data.