Arndt von Haeseler

Arndt von Haeseler
Born (1959-02-28) 28 February 1959 (age 65)
Bremen[2]
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Rekonstruktion phylogenetischer Bäume mit Hilfe von Varianten der Vier-Punkt-Bedingung[1]  (1988)
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral students
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

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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.[2][1] He habilitated in 1994 at the Department of Zoology of the University of Munich,[2] where he remained as a lecturer until 1998.[3]

Research and career

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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.[2] 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).[2] He is a professor of bioinformatics at the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna.[4] From 2017 to 2020, he was the scientific director of the MFPL (since 2019 Max Perutz Labs).[4][5] At the University Vienna, he was the dean of the Center for Molecular Biology.[6] At the Medical University of Vienna, he was 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and its successor, IQ-TREE.[10][11] However, the 2004 article about TREEFINDER in BMC Evolutionary Biology was retracted in 2015 due to the license change.[12] More precisely, coauthor Gangolf Jobb had forbidden use of the software in the USA and several European countries as an anti-immigration political statement.[13]

He sits on the editorial boards of Molecular Biology and Evolution and BMC Evolutionary Biology.[14][15][16]

Awards and honours

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In 2021, 2022 and 2023, Arndt von Haeseler was awarded "Highly Cited Researcher". [17][18][19][20][21]

In 2015, von Haeseler was elected as a corresponding member of the mathematics and science class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[14][22]

Since 1999, he holds an honorary professorship in theoretical biology at the University of Leipzig.[14][23]

References

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  1. ^ a b Arndt von Haeseler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b c d e "Prof. von Haeseler hält seine Antrittsvorlesung an der VUW" (PDF). Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien (in German).
  3. ^ a b c d "Arndt von Haeseler – Austrian Computer Science Day 2016". Austrian Computer Science Day 2016. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
  4. ^ a b "Organisation". Max F. Perutz Laboratories. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  5. ^ "History of the Max Perutz Labs". Home. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  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. ^ "TREEFINDER". www.treefinder.de. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  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.
  12. ^ Jobb, Gangolf; von Haeseler, Arndt; Strimmer, Korbinian (2015-11-05). "Retraction Note: TREEFINDER: a powerful graphical analysis environment for molecular phylogenetics". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15 (1): 243. Bibcode:2015BMCEE..15..243J. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0513-z. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 4635604. PMID 26542699.
  13. ^ Kupferschmidt, Kai (29 September 2015). "Scientist says researchers in immigrant-friendly nations can't use his software". Science.org. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  14. ^ a b c "ÖAW Mitglieder Detail". Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German). Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  15. ^ "BMC Evolutionary Biology". BMC Evolutionary Biology. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  16. ^ "Editorial Board - Molecular Biology and Evolution". Oxford Academic. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  17. ^ "Elf 'Highly Cited Researchers' an der Universität Wien". University of Vienna. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  18. ^ "Highly Cited Researchers 2023". Web of Science. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  19. ^ "Ten highly cited researchers at the University of Vienna". University of Vienna. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  20. ^ "Highly Cited Researchers 2022". Web of Science. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  21. ^ "Highly Cited Researchers 2021". Web of Science. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  22. ^ "Three MFPL group leaders elected as members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW". Home. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  23. ^ "Bericht des Rektoratskollegiums 1999/2000" (PDF). University of Leipzig (in German).[permanent dead link]
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