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Sonja Prohaska is a Professor of Computational EvoDevo at the Institute of Computer Science and a group leader at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Bioinformatics (IZBI), Leipzig University, Germany. She also holds External Faculty positions at the Santa Fe Institute (since 2017) and the Complexity Science Hub (since 2019), reflecting her active engagement in complexity science and interdisciplinary research.
Her research centers on gene regulation, with a particular focus on epigenetic gene regulation models. She aims to introduce formal theoretical frameworks into biology, combining reductionist and holistic approaches. Evolution serves both as a subject and a tool in her investigations, aiming for a general understanding of regulatory complexity across biological systems.
The available publication highlights her work in molecular evolution and enzyme function, indicating a strong trend in integrating computational methods with evolutionary analysis to solve biochemical puzzles. Her research bridges biology, computer science, and complex systems theory.
- External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute (2017–present)
- External Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (2019–present)
Sonja Prohaska mentors a research group at IZBI but no specific advisees are listed. There is no mention of grants in the provided text.
She is involved in interdisciplinary research through her leadership at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Bioinformatics (IZBI), where her team explores formal models in biological systems, focusing on regulatory mechanisms and evolutionary dynamics.
