Emma received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, working on speciation genomics. She continued to work in evolutionary genomics during a postdoc at the Natural History Museum in Berlin and as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Gothenburg. Her interests include recombination, genome evolution, and structural variants. She loves unusual data sets and non-model organisms and is experienced in bulk RNAseq analysis, variant calling, and various tools for linking phenotype with genotype.