Education
Bio
Ernesto is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Manhart lab working on the predictability of evolution across biological scales and species diversity in Candida yeast. He is interested in developing mathematical models to uncover general principles governing adaptation, with a particular emphasis on microbial systems.
Before joining Rutgers, he was a postdoctoral fellow (DFG fellow) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and CAU Kiel. He obtained his PhD in physics at the University of Manchester.
Research Focus
Walter Benjamin Position grant from DFG. Project: “Bottlenecks, population dynamics, and antibiotic resistance evolution”.
President’s Doctoral Scholar Award, The University of Manchester, UK.
Beca Magíster Nacional Convocatoria 2015, CONICYT, Chile.