CV
Here you can find my CV. The pdf is availabe, you can take a look at it by clicking the 'pdf' button (opens in a new tab).
General Information
| Full Name | Basanta Khakurel |
| Position | PhD Student |
| b.khakurel@lmu.de | |
| Phone | +49-015252609529 |
| Location | Munich, Germany |
| Languages | Nepali (Native), English (Fluent), Hindi (Fluent), German (Beginner) |
Education
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2023 - Present PhD in Geosciences
Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany - {"Thesis"=>"Exploration of more robust morphological models for Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference"}
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2021 - 2023 Master of Science
Southeastern Lousiana University, Hammond, LA, US - {"Thesis"=>"Inference of Phylogeny Using Discrete Morphological Characters"}
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2017 - 2021 Bachelor of Science
Southeastern Lousiana University, Hammond, LA, US - {"Thesis"=>"Species delimitation on the Eastern Pinesnake complex"}
Experience
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2023 - Present Graduate Research Assitant
Paleontological Museum Munich, Munich, Germany - Working towards a PhD degree.
- {"Focus"=>"Bayesian Phylogenetics."}
Workshops & Certificates
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2024 - Navigating Scientific Publishing - Early Career Focus (3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology)
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2023 - RevBayes Workshop and Hackathon (Munich, DE)
- Phenoscape Traitfest (Durham, NC)
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2021 - PhylogatR workshop (Pembroke, VA)
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2020 - Posterior Predictive Simulation with P2C2M workshop (SSB Meeting Gainesville, FL)
Academic Interests
- Bayesian Phylogenetics
- Morphological Models
- Species Delimitation
- Phylogeny Inference