I am a Final-year Biological Sciences PhD Student studying at Queen Mary University of London and a Research Assistant at Imperial College London.
- Supervised by Prof Richard Nichols, Dr Matteo Fumagalli, Dr Bob Verity, Prof Alexander Gnedin and Dr Hsiao-Han Chang.
- 📌 My PhD looks at
Ancestral Recombination Graphs (ARGs)— how they are utilised across different biological questions, how the assumptions of existing tools affect their outputs, and modelling the reasons why current ARG methods are not suitable for certain use cases. - 🔭 My RA role at Imperial focuses on developing a malaria transmission simulator using a
tree sequenceframework for efficient simulation and storage of P. falciparum population histories. - 📄 Bansal & Nichols (2025) — Trends in Genetics
My research interests:
- Ancestral Recombination Graphs and Coalescence theory
- Building frameworks and tools
- Statistical and Mathematical modelling
Other projects i'm working on!
- 🎓 PlasmoGen26 — co-organising a free student-led symposium on population genetics, evolutionary biology and malaria @ the Linnean Society of London, 6 Nov 2026
Other bits about me!
- 🎓 || BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (2.1), University of Bath 🛁 || MSc Bioinformatics (Distinction), Queen Mary University of London 🏛️
Find out more about me on my website!. Or have a look at my work github.