Curriculum Vitae

Education

June 1999	PhD in physics (Dr. rer. nat.), Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Oct. 1996	Diplom (equiv. to Master's degree) in physics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
June 1991	Abitur (final high-school exam), Gymnasium Velbert-Langenberg.

Positions

Sep. 2005-present	assistant professor, University of Texas at Austin.
May 2004-Aug. 2005	research assistant professor, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences.
2003-2004	senior postdoctoral scholar, California Institute of Technology.
2000-2002	postdoctoral scholar, California Institute of Technology.
Oct. 1999-Dec. 1999	postdoctoral fellow, Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, Medizinische Universität Lübeck.
1996-1999	research assistant, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Awards

2003	Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's funded Postdoc (declined).
1996	Ruth and Gerd Massenberg award for excellence in physics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
1994/1995	Erasmus scholarship.

Grants

1. Development of a realistic, genome-scale simulation model of protein evolution (SRA, UT Austin). Claus O. Wilke (PI). Project period: 07/01/2007-09/30/2007; total award: $21,500.
2. Determinants of RNA virus evolution (NIH). Isabel Novella (PI), Claus O. Wilke (Co-Investigator). Project period: 06/15/2005-02/28/2010; total award: $1,827,774.

Professional Activities

• Member of editorial board:
  2002-present: Systematic Biology
  2007-present: BMC Evolutionary Biology
• Referee for professional journals:
  Nature, Science, PNAS, PLoS Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of General Virology, Nature Reviews Genetics, BMC Evol. Biol., Systematic Biology, BioSystems, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life, Nonlinearity.
• Referee for conference proceedings:
  1. Ninth International Conference on Artificial Life, September 2004, Boston, MA (ALIFE IX).
  2. Seventh European Conference on Artificial Life, September 2003, Dortmund, Germany (ECAL VII).
  3. Sixth European Conference on Artificial Life, September 2001, Prague, Czech Republic (ECAL VI).
  4. Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life, August 2000, Portland, OR (ALIFE VII).
• Conference organization:
  1. Co-organizer of Workshop on Aspects of Self-Organization in Evolution, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. November 14-18, 2005 (with C. Adami).
  2. Co-organizer of 3rd German Workshop on Artificial Life 1998 (with S. Altmeyer and T. Martinetz).

Teaching experience

• Molecular Evolution. University of Texas at Austin, fall 2006.
• Biostatistics. University of Texas at Austin, spring 2006 and 2007.
• Statistical methods in bioinformatics. Keck Graduate Institute and Claremont Graduate University, autumn 2004/ spring 2005 (taught jointly with A. Raval)
• Seminar series on Artificial Life. Ruhr-Universität Bochum, autumn/winter 1997-98 (taught jointly with S. Altmeyer); autumn/winter 1998-99 (taught jointly with S. Altmeyer and C. Ronnewinkel).

Languages

German, English, Italian