Tanja Stadler is a mathematician and professor of computational evolution at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

She’s the current president of the Swiss Scientific Advisory Panel COVID-19 and Vize-Chair of the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zürich.

[1] She continued at the Technical University of Munich to obtain a PhD in 2008 on the topic 'Evolving Trees – Models for Speciation and Extinction in Phylogenetics' (with Prof. Anusch Taraz and Prof. Mike Steel).

[3] Tanja's research addresses core questions in the life sciences through an evolutionary perspective, in particular in macroevolution, epidemiology, developmental biology and immunology.

Tanja made major theoretical contributions to the field of phylodynamics by developing statistical frameworks to use birth-death processes in the context of phylogenetic trees.

BEAST 2 is a widely used Bayesian phylogenetic software platform allowing to infer evolutionary and population dynamics from genomic sequencing data to which Tanja’s team contributed many package.

[20] It is widely used to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 lineage designation and used in policy such as the FDA advisory committee meeting discussing possible SARS-CoV-2 strains for a vaccine update.