Vienna Science Chair

Mathematics and Biosciences

Project type: Vienna Science Chair
Programme: Mathematics and...
Call: Mathematics and ... Science Chairs 2006
Start: 01.10.2007
Duration: 5,00 years
Grant awarded: 1.500.000 €
Keywords: Coalescent, Adaptation, Diffusion, Epistasis, multilocus models

Joachim Hermisson

Max F. Perutz Laboratories
University of Vienna and University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Project partners: Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna

Joachim Hermisson was chosen by MFPL, the University of Vienna and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna as a candidate to reinforce the link between mathematics and biosciences.

He carries out his research work into mathematical population genetics at the University of Vienna and the Max F. Perutz Laboratories in near proximity to Arndt von Haeseler who was appointed to the WWTF chair in 2005.

Before he had been group manager at the Department for Biology of LMU Munich.

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