Frederick (Erick) Matsen
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle WA
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Scientific Career
| 2010- | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Assistant Faculty Member |
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| 2007-2010 | University of California, Berkeley. Miller Institute Research Fellow |
| 2006-2007 | University of Canterbury. Postdoctoral Fellow |
Education
| 2001-2006 | Harvard University. PhD in Mathematics |
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| 2000-2001 | Universite de Paris 13. DEA in Mathematics |
| 1996-2000 | Stanford University. BS in Mathematics with honors |
Research interests
I have many interests, but my current goal is to develop population-genetic methods to understand genetic data. In particular, I am interested extending coalescent theory in both theoretical and practical directions.
Although my training is in pure mathematics-- topology and geometry-- I am falling in love with the subject of stochastic processes. So far, my knowledge is restricted to Markov processes on a countable state space, but this is certainly the case of relevance for population models.
Selected publications
- Matsen, F.A. and Nowak, M.A. (2004) Win-stay, lose-shift in language learning from peers, PNAS, 101.52, 18053-18057.