Research

Publications & Preprints

• Sampling probabilities, diffusions, ancestral graphs, and duality under strong selection.
  M. Favero and P. A. Jenkins. [arXiv]

• The distribution of branch duration and detection of inversions in ancestral recombination graphs.
  A. Ignatieva, M. Favero, J. Koskela, J. Sant, and S. R. Myers. [bioRxiv]

• Estimates of the proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals in Sweden.
  H. Hult and M. Favero. [arXiv] 

• Weak convergence for the scaled jump chain and number of mutations of the Kingman coalescent.
  M. Favero and H. Hult (2024). Electronic Journal of Probability 29: 1-22. [Journal]

• Modelling preventive measures and their effect on generation times in emerging epidemics.
  M. Favero, G. Scalia Tomba and T. Britton (2022). Journal of The Royal Society Interface 19:  20220128. [Journal]

• Asymptotic behaviour of sampling and transition probabilities in coalescent models under selection and parent dependent mutations.
  M. Favero and H. Hult (2022). Electronic Communications in Probability 27: 1-13. [Journal]

• A dual process for the coupled Wright-Fisher diffusion.
  M. Favero, H. Hult and T. Koski (2021). Journal of Mathematical Biology 82, 6. [Journal]

Theses

• PhD thesis: Asymptotics, weak convergence and duality in population genetics [Introduction]

• Master's thesis: Estimating the initial spread potential of an epidemic within a branching processes framework