Arndt von Haeseler

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Arndt von Haeseler
Born (1959-02-28) 28 February 1959 (age 63)
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Thesis Rekonstruktion phylogenetischer Bäume mit Hilfe von Varianten der Vier-Punkt-Bedingung [2]  (1988)
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Website www.cibiv.at/~haeseler/

Arndt von Haeseler (born 28 February 1959) is a German bioinformatician and evolutionary biologist. He is the scientific director of the Max F. Perutz Laboratories at the Vienna Biocenter and a professor of bioinformatics at the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna.

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Education

Arndt von Haeseler obtained a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Bielefeld in 1988 under the supervision of Andreas Dress and Hans-Georg Carstens. [1] [2] He habilitated in 1994 at the Department of Zoology of the University of Munich, [1] where he remained as a lecturer until 1998. [3]

Research and career

From 1998 until 2001, von Haeseler was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. [3] From 2001 until 2005, he was professor of bioinformatics at the University of Düsseldorf. [1] He was a group leader in bioinformatics at Forschungszentrum Jülich. [3] In 2005, he joined the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) in Vienna, where he leads the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV). [1] In 2017, he became the scientific director of the MFPL. [4] [5] He is a professor of bioinformatics at the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna. [4] At the University Vienna, he is the dean of the Center for Molecular Biology. [6] At the Medical University of Vienna, he is the head of the Department for Medical Biochemistry. [7]

His research focuses on developing computational methods for the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees. [3] He co-authored the phylogenetics software packages TREEFINDER, [8] TREE-PUZZLE, [9] and its successor, IQ-TREE. [10] [11]

He sits on the editorial boards of Molecular Biology and Evolution and BMC Evolutionary Biology . [12] [13] [14]

Awards and honours

In 2015, von Haeseler was elected as a corresponding member of the mathematics and science class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. [12] [15]

Since 1999, he holds an honorary professorship in theoretical biology at the University of Leipzig. [12] [16]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Prof. von Haeseler hält seine Antrittsvorlesung an der VUW" (PDF). Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien (in German).
  2. 1 2 Arndt von Haeseler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Arndt von Haeseler – Austrian Computer Science Day 2016". Austrian Computer Science Day 2016. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  4. 1 2 "Organisation". Max F. Perutz Laboratories. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  5. ↑ "MFPL History". Home. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  6. ↑ "Center for molecular biology". Zentrum für molekulare Biologie (ZMB). Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  7. ↑ Vienna, Medical University of. "Zentrum für Medizinische Biochemie". Medical University of Vienna. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  8. ↑ Jobb, Gangolf; von Haeseler, Arndt; Strimmer, Korbinian (2004). "TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics". BMC Evolutionary Biology. Springer Nature. 4 (1): 18. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-4-18. ISSN   1471-2148. PMC   459214 . PMID   15222900. (Retracted, see doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0513-z)
  9. ↑ Schmidt, Heiko A.; Strimmer, Korbinian; Vingron, Martin; Haeseler, von (2002-03-01). "TREE-PUZZLE: maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis using quartets and parallel computing". Bioinformatics. 18 (3): 502–504. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.3.502 . ISSN   1367-4803. PMID   11934758 . Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  10. ↑ Nguyen, Lam-Tung; Schmidt, Heiko A.; Haeseler, von; Minh, Bui Quang (2014-11-03). "IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32 (1): 268–274. doi:10.1093/molbev/msu300. ISSN   0737-4038. PMC   4271533 . PMID   25371430.
  11. ↑ Trifinopoulos, Jana; Nguyen, Lam-Tung; von Haeseler, Arndt; Minh, Bui Quang (2016-04-15). "W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis". Nucleic Acids Research. 44 (W1): W232–W235. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw256. ISSN   0305-1048. PMC   4987875 . PMID   27084950.
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  14. ↑ "Editorial Board - Molecular Biology and Evolution". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  15. ↑ "Three MFPL group leaders elected as members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW". Home. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  16. ↑ "Bericht des Rektoratskollegiums 1999/2000" (PDF). University of Leipzig (in German).[ permanent dead link ]
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