Peter Stadler

The general theme of my research interests is the search for consistent understanding of biological processes in particular and complex systems in general (with an emphasis on evolution) from both a structural and a dynamic perspective. In the last years this has expanded to an interest in evolutionary and -- thus intrinsically historic -- phenomena also beyond biological systems to topic such as the evolution of human language and history as a collective phenomenon.  Techniques range from the analysis of the dynamical systems arising in chemical kinetics and population genetics, to a broad array of methods in computational biology/biology, algebraic combinatorics and discrete mathematics with an emphasis on graph theory. A particular interest in finding the ``right'' mathematical structures to describe such evolutionary phenomena, which  often leads less-studied topics such a generalized topology or directed hypergraphs..

Peter F. Stadler is a professor of bioinformatics at Leipzig University, Germany, a position he has held since 2002. He earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1990, followed by postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. His interdisciplinary research spans bioinformatics, evolutionary biology, and theoretical chemistry, with significant contributions to RNA bioinformatics and computational approaches to molecular evolution. He is also an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences and a member of the Santa Fe Institute's External Faculty.