Bernard M. E. Moret (born 1953) is a Swiss-American

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, an emeritus professor of computer science at the

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. He is known for his work in computational phylogenetics, and in particular for mathematics and methods for computing phylogenetic trees using genome rearrangement events.

Biography

Moret was born in 1953 in

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Switzerland, and did his undergraduate studies at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), graduating in 1975. He went on to graduate studies at the

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, earning a Ph.D. in 1980. He then joined the faculty of the

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, where he remained until 2006, when he moved to EPFL.Curriculum vitae
as of 2016, retrieved 2019-10-24. He retired from EPFL in December 2016. In 1996, Moret founded the '' ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics'', and he remained editor in chief of the journal until 2003. In 2001, Moret founded the Workshop in Algorithms for Bioinformatics (WABI) and remains on the Steering Committee for the conference. In 2018, Moret was elected as a

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of the

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, for his outstanding contributions to the fields of

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and

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Publications

Moret is the author of ''The Theory of Computation'' (Addison-Wesley, 1998). With H. D. Shapiro, he is the co-author of ''Algorithms from P to NP, Volume I: Design and Efficiency'' (Benjamin Cummings, 1991). He has also written many highly cited research papers in bioinformatics, including papers on calculating the minimum genetic rearrangement distance between a pair of related genomes and on evolutionary tree reconstruction..

References

External links

Lab page
at EPFL
Old home page
at the University of New Mexico
Citations
at Google Scholar {{DEFAULTSORT:Moret, Bernard M. E. 1953 births Living people American computer scientists Swiss bioinformaticians University of Tennessee alumni University of New Mexico faculty