Heiko Andreas Schmidt

Dr. Heiko Andreas Schmidt is a computational biologist affiliated with the University of Vienna, where he works at the Department of Structural and Computational Biology as part of the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics Vienna (CIBIV) and Max Perutz Labs. His research focuses on phylogenetics, phylogenomics, and the development of computational tools for evolutionary tree reconstruction, including contributions to software like IQ-TREE and TREE-PUZZLE.

His work spans parallel computing applications in phylogenetics, scientific workflows, and quality assessments of alignments. He has co-authored numerous high-impact studies in molecular biology, developmental biology, and bioinformatics, often collaborating with Prof. Arndt von Haeseler and other researchers.

Dr. Schmidt has contributed to methodological advancements in phylogenetic inference, particularly for large genomic datasets. He has taught courses such as Bioinformatics for Phylogeny and Evolutionary Tree Reconstruction and Algorithmic Bioinformatics at the University of Vienna.