Rate Professor Claus Wilke

Academic Profile

Academic Background: PhD in Theoretical Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 1999.

• Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in Molecular Evolution.

Research Interests: Computational biology, molecular evolution, protein biochemistry, and virology. Develops methods for data visualization and analysis of large-scale biological datasets.

Appointments: Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Department of Statistics and Data Sciences. Director of the Wilke Lab.

Awards: Recipient of NSF grants for computational biology research.

Publications: Author of Fundamentals of Data Visualization (O’Reilly Media, 2019). Published nearly 200 scientific papers in journals like Nature, Science, and PLOS Computational Biology.