Cesar Fortes-Lima ([email protected]) is specialized in Human Population Genetics and currently works at the sub-Department of Human Evolution at Uppsala University (Sweden) as a Postdoc Researcher. He has a Doctorate in Biological Anthropology from the University Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III (France). His main research areas include African genetic diversity, African Diaspora, transatlantic slave trade, demographic inference, admixture dynamics, mass migrations. His research is mostly conducted in Africa and Latin America. He has participated as researcher in several collaborative projects, such as the EUROTAST ("European Initial Training Network on the History, Archaeology, and New Genetics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade"), and the French ANR grant METHIS (to investigate the "Influence of admixture histories on the genetic evolution of hybrid populations"). Currently, his research is part of the ERC-funded project AfricanNeo ("The African Neolithic: A genetic perspective").
