New D-BSSE Professor Tanja Stadler
At its meeting of 4 and 5 December 2013, the ETH Board appointed 5 professors at ETH Zurich in accordance with the applications submitted by Ralph Eichler, President of the Executive Board. One of them, Dr. Tanja Stadler, will be a new professor of the D-BSSE.
Dr Tanja Stadler (*1981), currently Group Leader at ETH Zurich, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Computational Evolution. Tanja Stadler is already one of the world's leading researchers in the field of phylogenetic dynamics. By developing new mathematical models, she has made important contributions to the study of the population spread of pathogenic organisms. Her work represents a methodological breakthrough which allows epidemiological parameters to be evaluated directly from DNA sequence data for the first time. The appointment of Tanja Stadler means that ETH Zurich and the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering are sustainably strengthening their strategic research activities in systems biology and synthetic biology, as well as boosting their ability to derive medical applications from pure research.