Claus O. Wilke is a computational and evolutionary biologist and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology at University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dwight W. and Blanche Faye Reeder Centennial Fellow in Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, and currently holds the Joseph J. & Jeanne M. Lagowski Regents Professorship in Molecular Bioscience.[2]
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| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
| Alma mater | Ruhr University Bochum |
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| Fields | Evolutionary Biology and Computational Biology |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | Evolutionary Dynamics in Time-Dependent Environments[1] (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Martinetz |
Education and career
editWilke obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1999, and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology in the lab of Chris Adami. He moved to UT Austin as an assistant professor in 2006, where he is now professor, department chair, and director of the Wilke Lab. Wilke studies the evolution of molecules and viruses using theoretical and computational methods. He is also active in the field of data visualisation[3] and is the author of the Cowplot and ggridges R packages.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ "Claus O. Wilke CV". utdirect.utexas.edu. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Wilke profile at UT Austin". Retrieved 2017-08-26.
- ^ Wilke, C. (2019). Fundamentals of data visualization : a primer on making informative and compelling figures (First ed.). Sebastopol, CA. ISBN 978-1492031086.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Wilke, Claus O. "Introduction to cowplot". cran.r-project.org. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Wilke, Claus O. "Introduction to ggridges". cran.r-project.org. Retrieved 31 May 2021.