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Shuhua Xu
Affiliation：Fudan University, China
Technical Title：Professor
Dr. Shuhua Xu is professor of human population genetics, Principal Investigator of Population Omics Group, and Director of Center for Evolutionary Biology at Fudan University. He joined Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Max-Planck Society Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) in 2006 after he received his PhD at Fudan University. He was appointed the position of Principal Investigator in 2009 and led the Population Genomics Group (PGG). He was appointed the position of Max-Planck Independent Research Group Leader in 2011, and supported by both Max-Planck and CAS from 2012 to 2018. He is currently holding a Distinguished Professorship at Fudan University and a Distinguished Adjunct Professorship at ShanghaiTech University, China. The Population Omics Group led by Dr. Xu is using computational approaches and developing new methods to dissect genetic architecture of human populations, quantitatively characterize their admixture features, and reveal their migration history and adaptive divergence. Dr. Xu has authored many scientific papers published in Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Genome Biology, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Research, Molecular Biology and Evolution, the PLoS and the BMC journals. Dr. Xu serves as Editorial Board member of several international peer-reviewed journals such as JGG, Hereditas, BMC Genomic Data (Senior Editor), and Molecular Genetics and Genomics (co-Editor-in-Chief).