Claudia Maria Neuhauser (born 1962) is a
mathematical biologist[.] whose research concerns
spatial ecology
Spatial ecology studies the ultimate distributional or spatial unit occupied by a species. In a particular habitat shared by several species, each of the species is usually confined to its own microhabitat or spatial niche because two species in ...
. She also investigates
computational biology and
bioinformatics.
Education and career
As a student, Neuhauser studied
mathematics and
physics
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.
She graduated from
Heidelberg University
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in 1988,
and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from
Cornell University
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in 1990 with a dissertation on
ergodic theory supervised by
Rick Durrett.
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
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,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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, and
University of California, Davis
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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
The University of Houston (UH) is a public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the university in Texas with over 47,000 students. Its campus, which is primarily in s ...
, 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 and directs the Institute of Informatics at the
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. T ...
. At the University of Minnesota, she is also a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor.
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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. In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the
American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...
.
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2014-12-30.
References
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1962 births
Living people
American women mathematicians
Theoretical biologists
20th-century American mathematicians
University of Southern California faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
University of California, Davis faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Textbook writers
Women textbook writers
Mathematical ecologists
20th-century women mathematicians
American women biologists
Computational biologists
21st-century scientists
21st-century biologists
21st-century women mathematicians
American Mathematical Society
Cornell University alumni
Heidelberg University alumni
Women ecologists
20th-century American women
21st-century American women