Tanja Stadler

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Tanja Stadler
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Tanja Stadler (2014)
Born1981 (1981)
Stuttgart, Germany
NationalitySwiss German
AwardsJohn Maynard Smith prize; ETH Latsis Prize; ETH Golden Owl for teaching
Scientific career
FieldsPhylogenetics
InstitutionsETH Zürich

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.

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.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tanja Stadler initiated a Swiss-wide SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort in March 2020.[9] This effort in particular detected the first 50Y.V2 and the P.1 variants in Switzerland.

Tanja Stadler is a president of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science task force [10] advising the authorities and decision makers of Switzerland. She started the presidency in August 2021 after having been a member and later chaired the data & modelling group of the task force.

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "CV Tanja Stadler". Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. ^ "PhD thesis Tanja Stadler" (PDF). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "ETH Latsis Prize 2013". Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  4. ^ Tanja Stadler (December 2010), "Sampling-through-time in birth–death trees", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 267 (3): 396–404, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.010, PMID 20851708
  5. ^ Tanja Stadler; et al. (January 2012), "Estimating the Basic Reproductive Number from Viral Sequence Data", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29: 347–357, doi:10.1093/molbev/msr217, PMID 21890480
  6. ^ Alexandra Gavryushkina; et al. (January 2017), "Bayesian total-evidence dating reveals the recent crown radiation of penguins", Systematic Biology, 66 (1): 57–73, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw060, PMC 5410945, PMID 28173531
  7. ^ Tanja Stadler (April 2011), "Mammalian phylogeny reveals recent diversification rate shifts", PNAS, 108 (15): 6187–6192, Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.6187S, doi:10.1073/pnas.1016876108, PMC 3076834, PMID 21444816, S2CID 2962222
  8. ^ Joëlle Barrido-Sottani; et al. (January 2018), "Taming the BEAST—A Community Teaching Material Resource for BEAST 2", Systematic Biology, 67 (1): 170–174, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syx060, PMC 5925777, PMID 28673048, S2CID 3561905
  9. ^ "Swiss Viollier Sequencing Consortium".
  10. ^ "Swiss National COVID-19 Science task force".
  11. ^ "John Maynard Smith Prize". Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  12. ^ "Prix Zonta". Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  13. ^ "ETH Golden Owl". Retrieved 1 January 2019.

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