缅北禁地

I joined the school as Reader in Statistics in August 2023. Here is a quick biography of where I was before that:

• Associate professor, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, 2021-23
• Assistant professor, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, 2017-21
• Postdoctoral researcher, Mathematics Institute, TU Berlin, 2016-17

I obtained my PhD from the Mathematics and Statistics Doctoral Training Centre (MASDOC) at the University of Warwick in 2016.

I'm a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and vice chair of their applied probability section committee, and an honorary fellow of the Warwick Department of Statistics.

My research interests encompass branching-coalescing particle systems and diffusion processes, particularly (but not exclusively) as models of population genetics. I'm also interested in Bayesian nonparametric inference, as well as the theory and practice of Monte Carlo methods and computational statistics.

I'm a member of the developer group, and in particular, have worked on the msprime package for simulating genome-scale data. I'm also an associate researcher on the on mathematical modelling of radiation transport.

I'm supervising 's PhD at the University of Warwick. I'm also an informal co-supervisor of Marta Dai Pra at HU Berlin, and at Warwick.

My former PhD students include:

• (University of Warwick),
• (University of Warwick),
• (University of Warwick),
• (University of Warwick),
• (University of Warwick, informal involvement).

Grants with which I've been involved are:

• EPSRC research grant EP/V049208/1, Mathematical foundations of non-reversible MCMC for genome-scale inference (£80k), 2021-22 (as PI).
• EPSRC New Investigator Award EP/R044732/1, Exact scalable inference for coalescent processes (£100k), 2018-20 (as PI).
• DFG SPP1819 start-up grant, (16k€). As Co-PI, joint with (PI) and (Co-PI).
• Icelandic Centre for Research Grant of Excellence 185151-051, Population genomics of highly fecund codfish. As collaborator, PIs: Einar Arnason (corresponding PI, University of Iceland), Katrin Halldorsdottir (University of Iceland), (University of Oxford), Wolfgang Stephan (Berlin Natural History Museum), (Berlin Natural History Museum).

In 2022 I was awarded the .

In the 2025/26 academic year I'll be teaching MAS3925/MAS8615 Statistical Genetics (with Advanced Topics).

• Articles

  • Dean CBC, Pérez-Lara ML, Horton E, Southerby M, Koskela J, Kyprianou AE. . Physics in Medicine and Biology 2026, epub ahead of print.
  • Favero M, Koskela J. . Stochastic Processes and their Applications 2026, 195, 104894.
  • Ignatieva A, Favero M, Koskela J, Sant J, Myers SR. . Molecular Biology and Evolution 2025, 42(9).
  • Crossley A, Habermann K, Horton E, Koskela J, Kyprianou AE, Osman S. . Proceedings of the Royal Society A 2025, 481(2310).
  • Helekal D, Koskela J, Didelot X. . Systematic Biology 2025, 74(6), 897-916.
  • Jenkins, PA, Koskela, J, Rivero, VM, Sant, J, Spano, D, Valentic, I. . Electronic Journal of Probability 2025. In Press.
  • Gill A, Koskela J, Didelot X, Everitt RG. . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C 2025, Epub ahead of print.
  • Roberts I, Everitt RG, Koskela J, Didelot X. . PLOS Computational Biology 2025, 21(4), e1012995.
  • Kirichenko A, Kelly LJ, Koskela J. . Journal of the American Statistical Association 2025, 120(551), 1569-1579.
  • Koskela J, Łatuszyński K, Spanò D. . Theoretical Population Biology 2024, 156, 40-45.
  • Wong Y, Ignatieva A, Koskela J, Gorjanc G, Wohns AW, Kelleher J. . Genetics 2024, 228(1).
  • Brown S, Jenkins PA, Johansen AM, Koskela J. . Stochastic Processes and their Applications 2023, 162, 76-105.
  • Árnason E, Koskela J, Halldórsdóttir K, Eldon B. . eLife 2023, 12, e80781.
  • Sant J, Jenkins PA, Koskela J, Spanò D. . Bioinformatics 2023, 39(1), btad017.
  • Koskela J. . Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 2022, 31(3), 684-694.
  • Baumdicker F, Bisschop G, Goldstein D, Gower G, Ragsdale AP, Tsambos G, Zhu S, Eldon B, Ellerman EC, Galloway JG, Gladstein AL, Gorjanc G, Guo B, Jeffery B, Kretzschumar WW, Lohse K, Matschiner M, Nelson D, Pope NS, Quinto-Cortés CD, Rodrigues MF, Saunack K, Sellinger T, Thornton K, van Kemenade H, Wohns AW, Wong Y, Gravel S, Kern AD, Koskela J, Ralph PL, Kelleher J. . Genetics 2022, 220(3), iyab229.
  • Sant J, Jenkins PA, Koskela J, Spanò D. . Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 2022, 49(4), 1728-1760.
  • Mahmoudi A, Koskela J, Kelleher J, Chan Y, Balding D. . PLOS Computational Biology 2022, 18(3), e1009960.
  • Brown S, Jenkins PA, Johansen AM, Koskela J. . Electronic Journal of Probability 2021, 26, 1.
  • Blath J, Buzzoni E, Koskela J, Wilke Berenguer M. . Theoretical Population Biology 2020, 132, 1-15.
  • Koskela J, Jenkins PA, Johansen AM, Spanò D. . Annals of Statistics 2020, 48(1), 560-583.
  • Koskela J, Wilke Berenguer M. . Mathematical Biosciences 2019, 311, 1-12.
  • Koskela J, Spanò D, Jenkins PA. . Bernoulli 2019, 25(3), 2183-2205.
  • Koskela J. . Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 2018, 17(3), 20170011.
  • Koskela J, Spanò D, Jenkins PA. . Statistics and Computing 2018, 28(1), 131-144.
  • Koskela J, Jenkins PA, Spanò D. . Bernoulli 2018, 24(3), 2122-2153.
  • Koskela J, Jenkins PA, Spanò D. . Journal of Applied Probability 2015, 52(2), 519-537.