Tanja Stadler

Tanja Stadler is a German mathematician and professor of Computational Evolution at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). She is known for her work in the field of phylogenetics.

Tanja Stadler
Born1981 (1981)
Stuttgart, Germany
NationalityGerman
AwardsJohn Maynard Smith prize; ETH Latsis Prize; ETH Golden Owl for teaching
Scientific career
FieldsPhylogenetics
InstitutionsETH Zürich

Education and career

Tanja Stadler studied Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, the University of Cardiff, and the University of Canterbury.[1] She obtained a Master degree in 2006 and a PhD in 2008 from the Technical University of Munich on 'Evolving Trees – Models for Speciation and Extinction in Phylogenetics' (with Prof. Anusch Taraz and Prof. Mike Steel).[2] From 2008 to 2011, Tanja Stadler was a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Sebastian Bonhoeffer in the Department of Environmental Systems Sciences at ETH Zürich. She was promoted to Group Leader in 2011.[1] In 2014, she became Assistant Professor at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering of ETH Zürich in Basel, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017.[3]

Work

Tanja Stadler is a world leader in the development of phylogenetic models and tools to understand evolutionary and population dynamic processes on different time scales. She has played a key role in introducing birth-death models into phylodynamics.[4] Using these methods, Tanja Stadler addresses questions across a wide range of fields, including epidemiology[5] and medicine, paleontology,[6] species evolution,[7] and language evolution.

She is one of the driving forces behind “Taming the Beast”,[8] which is both a workshop series and an online resource, to teach the usage of the Bayesian phylogenetic software package BEAST 2.

Awards
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References
  1. "CV Tanja Stadler". Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. "PhD thesis Tanja Stadler" (PDF). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  3. "ETH Latsis Prize 2013". Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  4. Tanja Stadler (December 2010), "Sampling-through-time in birth–death trees", Journal of Theoretical Biology, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.010
  5. Tanja Stadler; et al. (January 2012), "Estimating the Basic Reproductive Number from Viral Sequence Data", Molecular Biology and Evolution, doi:10.1093/molbev/msr217
  6. Alexandra Gavryushkina; et al. (January 2017), "Bayesian total-evidence dating reveals the recent crown radiation of penguins", Systematic Biology, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw060
  7. Tanja Stadler (April 2011), "Mammalian phylogeny reveals recent diversification rate shifts", PNAS, doi:10.1073/pnas.1016876108
  8. Joëlle Barrido-Sottani; et al. (January 2018), "Taming the BEAST—A Community Teaching Material Resource for BEAST 2", Systematic Biology, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syx060
  9. "John Maynard Smith Prize". Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  10. "Prix Zonta". Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  11. "ETH Golden Owl". Retrieved 1 January 2019.
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