8 August 2024

Welcome to Sonja Lehtinen

We’d like to extend a warm welcome to Sonja Lehtinen, who recently joined not only the NCCR, but also the UNIL Computational Biology Department, as a PI. Sonja works at the intersection of evolutionary theory, microbial ecology and public health. Her Evolutionary Epidemiology group uses mathematical and statistical modelling to address problems in public health, and to study the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that shape the structure and diversity of bacterial populations.  

Prior to becoming a professor at UNIL, Sonja was a SNSF PRIMA group leader at ETH Zurich in the Department of Environmental Systems Science. She has a PhD in Computational Biology from University College London. In her free time she enjoys running, cold water swimming and improv theatre.