MaBS

Mathematics and
BioSciences Group

University of Vienna

Faculty of Mathematics
Nordbergstrasse 15
A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Max F. Perutz Laboratories
Dr. Bohrgasse 9
A-1030 Vienna, Austria

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Prof. Joachim Hermisson - Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2006	Habilitation, Evolutionary Biology, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
1999	Dr. rer. nat., Theoretical Physics, summa cum laude, University of Tübingen
1995	Diploma, Physics, University of Göttingen
1990 - 1995	Studies in Physics and Philosophy, Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen

Academic and Research Appointments

Oct. 2007 -	Professor, Vienna Science Chair for Mathematics and Biosciences
2002 - 2007	Research Group Leader, Emmy Noether excellence program, Biology, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
2000 - 2002	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University (PI: G.P. Wagner)
1999 - 2000	Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen (PI: M. Baake)

Honors, Awards, and Grants

2009	Population genetics of inter-specific adaptation and differentiation (FWF), project within the Vienna Graduate School for Population Genetics.
2008	The signature of selection in structured populations (DFG), project within the DFG research unit FOR 1078 "Natural selection in structured populations".
2006	WWTF grant for Vienna Science Chair
2006	Graduate Program Award, VolkswagenStiftung Innovative teaching competition, grant for a Master- and PhD program in evolution, ecology, and systematics
2002 - 2007	Emmy Noether group leader fellowship, DFG excellence program, includes funding of a research group (2 Postdocs, 2 PhD students)
2000 - 2002	Emmy Noether postdoctoral fellowship, DFG excellence program
1999	Doctoral Prize, best PhD in Physics in 1998/99, University of Tübingen
1996 - 1998	PhD scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
1993 - 1996	Scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

Research Interests

Theoretical population genetics, mathematical biology, molecular evolution and adaptation, coalescent theory, gene interactions (epistasis), theory of speciation, evolution of the genotype-phenotype map, robustness/canalization, evolvability.

Teaching Experience

Lectures:	Mathematics for Biologists (1st year) 2003/04, 2004/05; Evolution (graduate, general introduction) 2004/05 Statistics for Ecologists and Evolutionists (lecture and computer practical) 2003, 2004, 2005 Scientific Presentation (lecture and practical course) 2006/07 Population genetics (introduction, lecture and practical course) 2008, 2009 Mathematical population genetics (graduate course, mathematics) 2010
Seminar:	Theory in Ecology and Evolution (graduate level) 2005, 2005/06 Coalescent Theory (graduate summer course) 2006
Tutorials:	Analysis I (1st year mathematics) 1995, 1996; Mathematical Methods in the Sciences (3rd year physics) 1994/95

Other Experience

2009 -	Associate Editor for Evolution
2009 -	Member of the Editorial Board for Heredity
April 2008	Co-organizer of the workshop on Mathematical Biology, Erwin Schrödinger Institute (ESI), Vienna, Austria
2006 - 2007	Chair of the Munich Graduate Program for Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics
April 2002	Organizer of the workshop on Detection and Evolution of Genetic Robustness, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Referee for	Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), European Research Council (ERC), National Science Foundation USA, Acta Biotheoretica, American Naturalist, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Heredity, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Physics A, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Nature, Physical Biology, Physica E, Physical Review E, Physical Review Letters, Science, PLoS Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS One, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), Theory in Biosciences, Theoretical Population Biology.