Tanja Stadler


Tanja Stadler is a German mathematician and professor of Computational Evolution at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. 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. 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'. 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. 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.

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. Using these methods, Tanja Stadler addresses questions across a wide range of fields, including epidemiology and medicine, paleontology, species evolution, and language evolution.
She is one of the driving forces behind “Taming the Beast”, which is both a workshop series and an online resource, to teach the usage of the Bayesian phylogenetic software package BEAST 2.

Awards