Dr Florin Mircea Iliescu

Mircea is deeply fascinated by the amazing human diversity. As a biologist interested in the history and variation of human populations, he works in the interdisciplinary space defined by the boundaries between genetics, evolution and anthropology. During his PhD at Cambridge University, which included six months of fieldwork in Southern India, he studied the genetics of human pigmentation diversity among the Indian populations.  He is now aiming to build on the results of his PhD research to further the understanding on the various evolutionary forces and their complex interplay that drive human phenotypic variation in India, and across the world.