Tanja Stadler

Tanja Stadler is a biostatistician and professor of Computational Evolution at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). She is known for her work in the field of phylogenetics.

Tanja Stadler
Tanja Stadler (2014)
Born1981 (1981)
Stuttgart, Germany
NationalitySwiss, German
AwardsCarus Medaille Leopoldina; SMBE Mid-Career Excellence Award; John Maynard Smith prize; ETH Latsis Prize; ETH Golden Owl for teaching
Scientific career
FieldsPhylogenetics
InstitutionsETH Zürich

Education and career

Tanja Stadler studied Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, the University of Cardiff, and the University of Canterbury.[1] 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' (with Prof. Anusch Taraz and Prof. Mike Steel).[2] 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.[1] 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 and to Full Professor in 2021.[3]

Work

Tanja Stadler shaped the development of phylogenetic models and tools to understand evolutionary and population dynamic processes on different time scales. Her work in particular enabled the wide use of birth-death models in phylodynamics.[4] Using these methods, Tanja Stadler addresses questions across a wide range of fields, including epidemiology[5] and medicine, paleontology,[6] species evolution,[7] and language evolution.

Tanja Stadler and her group founded “Taming the Beast”,[8] in 2016. Taming the Beast is both an international workshop series and an online resource, to teach the usage of the Bayesian phylogenetic software package BEAST 2.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tanja Stadler initiated and since then leads a Swiss-wide SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort in March 2020.[9] This effort was the only regular sequencing effort in the first year of the pandemic in Switzerland. Through this effort, the first beta, gamma, and delta variants in Switzerland were detected.

Tanja Stadler was president of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science task force [10] advising the authorities and decision makers of Switzerland from August 2021 until the termination of the task force in March 2022. She started the presidency after having been a member and later chaired the data & modelling group of the task force.

Awards

References
  1. "CV Tanja Stadler". Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  2. "PhD thesis Tanja Stadler" (PDF). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  3. "ETH Latsis Prize 2013". Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  4. Tanja Stadler (December 2010), "Sampling-through-time in birth–death trees", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 267 (3): 396–404, doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.09.010, PMID 20851708
  5. Tanja Stadler; et al. (January 2012), "Estimating the Basic Reproductive Number from Viral Sequence Data", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 29: 347–357, doi:10.1093/molbev/msr217, PMID 21890480
  6. Alexandra Gavryushkina; et al. (January 2017), "Bayesian total-evidence dating reveals the recent crown radiation of penguins", Systematic Biology, 66 (1): 57–73, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw060, PMC 5410945, PMID 28173531
  7. Tanja Stadler (April 2011), "Mammalian phylogeny reveals recent diversification rate shifts", PNAS, 108 (15): 6187–6192, Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.6187S, doi:10.1073/pnas.1016876108, PMC 3076834, PMID 21444816, S2CID 2962222
  8. Joëlle Barrido-Sottani; et al. (January 2018), "Taming the BEAST—A Community Teaching Material Resource for BEAST 2", Systematic Biology, 67 (1): 170–174, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syx060, PMC 5925777, PMID 28673048, S2CID 3561905
  9. "Swiss SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Consortium (S3C)".
  10. "Swiss National COVID-19 Science task force".
  11. "John Maynard Smith Prize". Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  12. "Prix Zonta". Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  13. "ETH Golden Owl". Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  14. Tanja Stadler erhält Rössler-Preis. ETH News, ethz.ch. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
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