Adrian is an enthusiastic bioinformatician and PhD student at the Transmissible Cancer Group. His major academic interest is in understanding the dynamics of mutation and selection in the genomes of normal and cancer cells. His side interests include scientific dissemination, evolutionary genetics, statistics, physics, history, and aviation.

Adrian's current research revolves around the evolutionary history of CTVT, an ancient canine transmissible cancer. For his research, Adrian has received the 2019 Postgraduate Student Inspiration Award from the Kennel Club Charitable Trust (funded with £10,000), and the 2017 Abcam Postgraduate Student Prize, awarded by the Department of Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge. Previously, he received an Extraordinary Degree Award and other honours for his computer science studies in Spain, where he developed tools for the assembly and analysis of bacterial genomes and metagenomes.

Adrian's research has been featured in prominent international media platforms, including WIRED, The Atlantic, The Times, Gizmodo, El País and The Hindu. He also writes for his two blogs, divulgatum and in silico.

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