Dr. Selina Brace

Dr Selina Brace received her B.Sc. from University College London (UCL) in 2004 and her PhD from Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) in 2010. She was a postdoctoral researcher at RHUL until 2013, then a Wellcome funded postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum (NHM) London until 2017. Since 2017 she has been employed as Principal Researcher in ancient DNA at the NHM.

Dr Selina Brace is an ancient DNA specialist with >10 years of experience working with degraded DNA samples. She specialises in DNA recovery from museum and palaeontological specimens and is an expert in ancient DNA extraction and NGS sequencing coupled with downstream analyses. Her work addresses questions relating to taxonomy and evolutionary relationships, also responses to past events (climatic and human mediated) and colonisation and extinction events. She has used ancient DNA at the species and population levels to explore past histories and structure of various taxa including insects, extinct and endangered large and small mammals, and humans.