Manuela Schmidt

Prof. Manuela Schmidt is a faculty member at the University of Vienna, affiliated with the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her research focuses on modern systems biology pain research and biomedical applications, primarily conducted in her laboratory. She supervises Master's theses with limited availability, requiring applications between January 1–31, 2025, and coordinates both experimental and literature-based thesis opportunities.

Her work spans bioinformatics, computational biology, and phylogenetics, with significant contributions to maximum likelihood phylogenetic methods and software development (e.g., IQ-TREE). Research trends include evolutionary biology, molecular biology, and applications of machine learning in phylogenetic analysis. Additional interests involve environmental microbiology and developmental genetics.

For contact, email manuela_schmidt@univie.ac.at. Her lab is located at UZA II, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, A-1090 Vienna, Austria (phone: +43-1-4277-55301).