Margherita Colucci

geoGraph models organism movement and connectivity across geographic space using hexagonal grids, improving accuracy over rectangular grids by avoiding distortion.

This study uses climate and genetic data to show that climate change shaped leopard population dynamics, leading to extinction in Europe and structuring populations in Asia and Africa.

tidygenclust provides an R package for population genetics clustering, integrating ADMIXTURE, fastmixture, and Clumppling with improved workflow and visualisation.

The paper estimates malaria transmission risk in sub-Saharan Africa over 74 kya and shows humans avoided malaria hotspots, shaping demography and population structure.

The paper models Homo sapiens evolution as a Pan-African metapopulation, showing how climate and connectivity shaped genetic and morphological diversity over 200,000 years.

tidysdm provides an R package for species distribution modelling using tidymodels, enabling flexible and unified model fitting, tuning, and validation across multiple algorithms.