Maria Anisimova

Maria Anisimova is Professor and Director of the Bioinformatics Center at the Institute of Computational Life Sciences (ICLS) within ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland. Her research spans evolutionary biology, computational genomics, and bioinformatics tool development, focusing on tandem repeats, codon usage, and indel evolution.

Her publications address:

• Computational challenges in codon optimization (2025)
• Indel-aware phylogenetic methods (2024-2025)
• Tandem repeat dynamics in cancer and evolution (2022-2025)
• Ontology-driven biomedical data querying (2022)

She has received multiple research grants from:

• Swiss National Science Foundation (grants 193832, 182330, 176316, 157064, 127325)
• European Commission (grant 823886)
• European Cooperation in Science and Technology (grant C16.0072)

Maria leads collaborative projects in:

• Trans-omic cancer research
• Repeat protein classification
• Indel evolutionary modeling
• Biomedical data integration

Her lab develops bioinformatics tools like TRAL, ProPIP, and ARPIP for tandem repeat analysis and sequence alignment.