Curriculum Vitae

Roland Wittler (Dr. rer. nat.)

Home address Mondsteinweg 3
33739 Bielefeld
Germany

Office address Universität Bielefeld
Technische Fakultät
Postfach 10 01 31
33501 Bielefeld
Germany

Nationality German

Date of Birth August 7th 1981

Email roZland@CeBiTec.Uni-BiZelefeld.DE (without the two Zs!)

Education and Development

since December 2010		Research assistant Genome Informatics, Faculty of Technology Bielefeld University, Germany
March 2010 - December 2010		Research assistant Department of Mathematics Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
February 2010		Conferral of Doctorate Faculty of Technology Bielefeld University, Germany Topic: `Phylogeny-based Analysis of Gene Clusters'
November 2006 - February 2010		Ph.D. student at Bielefeld University, Germany
		November 2009 - February 2010 Research assistant Genome Informatics, Faculty of Technology Bielefeld University, Germany
		November 2006 - October 2009 scholarship of the DFG (German Research Foundation)
October 2006		Diplom (german degree equivalent to Masters) Grade: 1.3 (maximum 1.0) Title: `Reconstruction of Conserved Intervals in Phylogenetic Trees'
March 2002 - October 2006		Bielefeld University, Germany Program of study: `Naturwissenschaftliche Informatik' (`computer science for natural sciences') Second subject: Physics
June 2001		Abitur (German equivalent to A-level) Grade: 1.4 (maximum 1.0)
August 1992 - June 2001		Secondary school: Einstein-Gymnasium, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany

Skills

Languages		German (native language) English (fluently) Latin (basics, `Latinum')
Programming languages		Haskell, Mathematica, Java, C and other imparative languages
Operating systems		Windows, DOS, Unix
Interests		photography, biking, sailing

Further training, Conferences

July 2010		ISMB High Throughput Sequencing (HiTSeq) Vienna, Austria
October 2010		8th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop Ottawa, Canada
July 2010		ISMB High Throughput Sequencing (HiTSeq) Bostion, MA, USA
October 2008		6th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop Paris, France
April 2008		Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop (BREW'08) Bielefeld, Germany
December 2007		Future Directions in Phylogenetic Methods and Models Cambridge, England
September 2007		5th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop San Diego, USA
May/June 2007		Summer School on Algorithmic Data Analysis (SADA'07) Helsinki, Finnland
May 2007		Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop (BREW'07) Bergen, Norway
September 2006		4th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop Montreal, Canada
August/September 2006		Otto Warburg International Summer School and Workshop on Evolutionary Genomics Berlin, Germany

Teaching

Lectures		Sequence Analysis (WS 2010/2011) (eKVV) Math 157, Calculus for the Social Sciences (Summer 2010, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada) Phylogenetics (WS 2009/2010) (eKVV)
Seminars		Milestones in (Bio-)informatics (SS 2010) (eKVV) Bioinformatic Applications in Genome Reseach (SS2010) (eKVV) Milestones in (Bio-)informatics (SS 2008) (eKVV) Data Compression (SS 2007) (eKVV)
Teaching assistance		Advanced Algorithmic Techniques in Bioinformatics (WS 2007/2008) (eKVV)
Project seminar		Random Model of Genome Evolution (SS 2009) (eKVV)
Others		Supervision of several bachelor theses

January 21, 2010