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

Research and career

From 1998 until 2001, von Haeseler was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. From 2001 until 2005, he was professor of bioinformatics at the University of Düsseldorf. He was a group leader in bioinformatics at Forschungszentrum Jülich. In 2005, he joined the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) in Vienna, where he leads the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV). He is a professor of bioinformatics at the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna. From 2017 to 2020, he was the scientific director of the MFPL (since 2019 Max Perutz Labs). At the University Vienna, he was the dean of the Center for Molecular Biology. At the Medical University of Vienna, he was the head of the Department for Medical Biochemistry.

His research focuses on developing computational methods for the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees. He co-authored the phylogenetics software packages TREEFINDER, TREE-PUZZLE, and its successor, IQ-TREE. However, the 2004 article about TREEFINDER in BMC Evolutionary Biology was retracted in 2015 due to the license change. More precisely, coauthor Gangolf Jobb had forbidden use of the software in the USA and several European countries as an anti-immigration political statement.

He sits on the editorial boards of Molecular Biology and Evolution and BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Awards and honours

In 2021, 2022 and 2023, Arndt von Haeseler was awarded "Highly Cited Researcher".

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

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

References

1. ^ Arndt von Haeseler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ^ "Prof. von Haeseler hält seine Antrittsvorlesung an der VUW" (PDF). Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien (in German).
3. ^ "Arndt von Haeseler – Austrian Computer Science Day 2016". Austrian Computer Science Day 2016. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
4. ^ "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. ^ "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).

External links

• Arndt von Haeseler publications indexed by Google Scholar

• 1959 births
• Living people
• German bioinformaticians
• 20th-century German mathematicians
• 20th-century German biologists
• Academic staff of the University of Vienna
• Bielefeld University alumni
• 21st-century German mathematicians
• Scientists from Bremen (city)