Daniel Gianola 

Professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Current role: Emeritus Professor
Tel: +1 608 354 6304
E-mail: [email protected]

Curriculum vitae

• Ing. Agr. Universidad de la República, Uruguay (1970)
• M. S., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1973)
• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (1973)
• Dr. Honoris Causa (Valencia, Goetttingen, Aarhus, Uruguay (twice), Iowa State University). Livestock Specialist, World Bank (1975-1977)
• Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1978-1990)
• Sewall Wright Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1991-2017)
• Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017- )
• Close 350 refereed scientific papers and 2 books; teacher of more than 100 Ph. D.-level courses in more than 20 countries; conference speaker at over 200 hundred events
• Member of the French Academy of Agriculture, Accademia dei Georgofili (Italy); Academia Nacional de Economía (Uruguay); Academia Nacional de Agricultura y Veterinaria (Argentina)
• Recipient of J. L. Lush, Rockefeller Prentice, Alexander von Humboldt and Hans Fischer Awards for research in animal breeding and genetics

Teachings

• Linear statistical models; Bayesian methods in genetics; Quantitative Genetics; Prediction of complex traits

Research areas

• Quantitative genetics of threshold characters.
• Bayesian methods for genetic  and genomic analysis
• Application of prediction algorithms
• Statistical genomics

Publications
​https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M5Lml2MAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao