Karl Schmid

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Using environmental association studies and population genomic analysis to identify useful genetic variation in plant crops and their wild relatives.

Goals:

• Compare different approaches for identifying adaptive variation
• Developing new approaches (deep learning) for identifying useful genetic and phenotypic variation.

I am a biologist by training, and have always been interested in evolutionary biology and population genetics. In my current position as a professor of crop diversity and breeding informatics, I utilise these concepts In the context of plant breeding.

I am specifically interested in:

Programming language and software:

Mountain climbing in summer and winter, hiking and long biking trips, reading fiction and non-fiction.