Biography:Arndt von Haeseler

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Arndt von Haeseler
Born (1959-02-28) 28 February 1959 (age 64)
Bremen[1]
Alma mater
  • University of Bielefeld (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisRekonstruktion phylogenetischer Bäume mit Hilfe von Varianten der Vier-Punkt-Bedingung[2] (1988)
Doctoral advisor
  • Andreas Dress
  • Hans-Georg Carstens
Doctoral students
  • Korbinian Strimmer
Websitewww.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.

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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Prof. von Haeseler hält seine Antrittsvorlesung an der VUW" (in de). https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/PA_Professur_Bioinformatik.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Arndt von Haeseler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Arndt von Haeseler – Austrian Computer Science Day 2016". http://acsd2016.jku.at/?speaker=arndt-von-haeseler. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Organisation". https://www.mfpl.ac.at/about-us/organisation.html. 
  5. "MFPL History". https://www.mfpl.ac.at/about-us/the-mfpl/mfpl-history.html. 
  6. "Center for molecular biology". http://zmb.univie.ac.at/en/?gf_page=upload. 
  7. Vienna, Medical University of. "Zentrum für Medizinische Biochemie". https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/about-us/organisation/medical-science-divisions/department-for-medical-biochemistry/. 
  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. 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". Bioinformatics 18 (3): 502–504. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/18.3.502. ISSN 1367-4803. PMID 11934758. https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/18/3/502/237049. 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". Molecular Biology and Evolution 32 (1): 268–274. doi:10.1093/molbev/msu300. ISSN 0737-4038. PMID 25371430. PMC 4271533. https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/32/1/268/2925592. Retrieved 2018-02-17. 
  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". Nucleic Acids Research 44 (W1): W232–W235. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw256. ISSN 0305-1048. PMID 27084950. PMC 4987875. https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/44/W1/W232/2499307. Retrieved 2018-02-17. 
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 "ÖAW Mitglieder Detail" (in de). https://www.oeaw.ac.at/m/von-haeseler-arndt/. 
  13. "BMC Evolutionary Biology". https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/about/editorial-board/editor-profiles. 
  14. "Editorial Board - Molecular Biology and Evolution". https://academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/Editorial_Board. 
  15. "Three MFPL group leaders elected as members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW". 2015-10-15. http://www.mfpl.ac.at/about-us/news/article/news-detail/three-mfpl-group-leaders-elected-as-members-of-the-austrian-academy-of-sciences-oeaw.html. 
  16. "Bericht des Rektoratskollegiums 1999/2000" (in de). https://www.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Service/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/Jahresberichte/jahresbericht_2000.pdf. 

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