I am a computational biologist with an interest in evolutionary biology and population genomics. Together with multidisciplinary and international collaborators, I am studying the recent history of humans and domestic animals in Europe, using large genomic datasets from modern and ancient populations analyzed with state-of-the-art computational tools. My group is also actively developing such open-access tools that are widely used by the research community.
Torsten Günther
Key Publications
Genetic relatedness mattered in the co-burial ritual of Neolithic hunter–gatherers
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2026
Genotype calls for modern and ancient sheep from Iberia
Zenodo, 2026
Estimating allele frequencies, ancestry proportions and genotype likelihoods in the presence of mapping bias
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2025
Gone With the Wind: Exploring a Vanished Rock Dove, Columba livia, Hybrid Zone in the Sahara Desert
Ecology and Evolution, 2025