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Claudia Maria Neuhauser (born 1962) is a
mathematical biologist Mathematical and theoretical biology, or biomathematics, is a branch of biology which employs theoretical analysis, mathematical models and abstractions of the Organism, living organisms to investigate the principles that govern the structure, dev ...
. whose research concerns spatial ecology. She also investigates
computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...
and
bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...
.


Education and career

As a student, Neuhauser studied
mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
and physics. She graduated from Heidelberg University in 1988, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University in 1990 with a dissertation on
ergodic theory Ergodic theory (Greek: ' "work", ' "way") is a branch of mathematics that studies statistical properties of deterministic dynamical systems; it is the study of ergodicity. In this context, statistical properties means properties which are expres ...
supervised by
Rick Durrett Richard Timothy Durrett is an American mathematician known for his research and books on mathematical probability theory, stochastic processes and their application to mathematical ecology and population genetics. Education and career He rece ...
. She became a mathematics professor at the University of Minnesota in 1996, and moved to the Rochester campus of the same university in 2008 before returning to the Twin Cities campus in 2013. She has also held faculty positions at the University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and University of California, Davis Before moving to the University of Minnesota Rochester in 2008, she was Professor and Head of the Ecology, Evolution and Behavior department at the Twin Cities campus. At the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, she works as the director of Research Computing. She was the university's Director of Graduate Studies for the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate program from 2008 to 2017. She is also a member of the Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics; Computer Science and Engineering; and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior departments at the university. At the University of Houston, she works as the Associate Vice President/Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer. She is the former vice chancellor for academic affairs at the
University of Minnesota Rochester The University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR) is a public college in Rochester, Minnesota. It is part of the University of Minnesota system and focuses primarily on general health sciences. It was formally established by an act of the state legisl ...
and directs the Institute of Informatics at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. At the University of Minnesota, she is also a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor.Faculty profile
Univ. of Minnesota, retrieved 2014-12-30.


Contributions

Neuhauser is the author of a mathematics textbook aimed at biology students, ''Calculus for Biology and Medicine''. It was first published in 2000. Its fourth edition came out January 12, 2018.


Selected publications

* Neuhauser, C., & Krone, S. M. (1997). The genealogy of samples in models with selection. ''Genetics'', ''145''(2), 519–534. * Krone, S. M., & Neuhauser, C. (1997). Ancestral processes with selection. ''Theoretical Population Biology'', ''51''(3), 210–237. https://doi.org/10.1006/tpbi.1997.1299 * Bolker, B. M., Pacala, S. W., & Neuhauser, C. (2003). Spatial dynamics in model plant communities: What do we really know? ''American Naturalist'', ''162''(2), 135–148. https://doi.org/10.1086/376575 * Kerr, B., Neuhauser, C., Bohannan, B. J. M., & Dean, A. M. (2006). Local migration promotes competitive restraint in a host-pathogen 'tragedy of the commons'. ''Nature'', ''442''(7098), 75–78. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04864


Recognition

In 2011, Neuhauser was elected as a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...
. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2014-12-30.


References

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