CV

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General Information

Full Name Basanta Khakurel
Position PhD Student
Email b.khakurel@lmu.de
Phone +49-015252609529
Location Munich, Germany
Languages Nepali (Native), English (Fluent), Hindi (Fluent), German (Beginner)

Education

  • 2023 - Present
    PhD in Geosciences
    Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany
    • {"Thesis"=>"Exploration of more robust morphological models for Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference"}
  • 2021 - 2023
    Master of Science
    Southeastern Lousiana University, Hammond, LA, US
    • {"Thesis"=>"Inference of Phylogeny Using Discrete Morphological Characters"}
  • 2017 - 2021
    Bachelor of Science
    Southeastern Lousiana University, Hammond, LA, US
    • {"Thesis"=>"Species delimitation on the Eastern Pinesnake complex"}

Experience

  • 2023 - Present
    Graduate Research Assitant
    Paleontological Museum Munich, Munich, Germany
    • Working towards a PhD degree.
    • {"Focus"=>"Bayesian Phylogenetics."}

Workshops & Certificates

  • 2024
    • Navigating Scientific Publishing - Early Career Focus (3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology)
  • 2023
    • RevBayes Workshop and Hackathon (Munich, DE)
    • Phenoscape Traitfest (Durham, NC)
  • 2021
    • PhylogatR workshop (Pembroke, VA)
  • 2020
    • Posterior Predictive Simulation with P2C2M workshop (SSB Meeting Gainesville, FL)

Academic Interests

  • Bayesian Phylogenetics
  • Morphological Models
  • Species Delimitation
  • Phylogeny Inference