Juraj Bergman is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC, MBG, AU) and an affiliated researcher at the Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO, AU). His research spans evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, and ecology, with a focus on genetic variation and evolutionary processes in primates and other mammals.
He has contributed to large-scale comparative genomic studies, including identifying constrained elements across 239 primate genomes and studying recombination and mutation patterns in the pseudoautosomal region of humans and great apes.
Bergman also examines the ecological impacts of megafaunal decline, showing human expansion—rather than climate change—as the main driver of Late Pleistocene population collapses. He further explores how functional traits shape mammalian population dynamics.
His work bridges deep-time evolutionary insights with modern ecological challenges, highlighting the biological consequences of human activity.
