Research
Successful Habilitation
The right and privilege to independently represent two disciplines in both research and teaching
In February 2023, I successfully completed my postdoctoral habilitation qualification and was awarded the “Lehrbefugnis” (academic license to teach) in two academic disciplines: botany and bioinformatics.
The certificate of habilitation confers upon the recipient the right and privilege to independently represent that discipline in both research and teaching in academia.
Given this academic milestone, I bid farewell to the Freie Universität Berlin and will now start my own research group! You will find me as Assistant Professor at Fort Hays State University in Kansas, United States of America.
Michael Gruenstaeudl – Successful habilitation – February 2023
Michael Gruenstaeudl
Research
The focus of my research is the development and application of computational methods to explore the phylogenetic relationships of flowering plants. Specifically, I develop and apply bioinformatics software and workflows to conduct phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses in the context of process automation and genomic data mining. Using these tools, I explore real-world questions in plant systematics and evolution.
Writing bioinformatic software
Teaching
I conduct academic teaching and thesis supervision in both plant biology and bioinformatics. I hereby place great emphasis on the publication of student theses as scientific papers. Hence, my students typically have their first publication when they finish their Master’s thesis with me. Incidentally, I have won several academic teaching awards.
Publication statistics
Number of peer-reviewed publications: |
21 |
of those, first author: |
12 |
of those, last author: |
3 |
(Last updated: Aug. 2021)
For details on my publications, please see my full publications list at:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1666-1773
Teaching plant systematics
About me
After completing a Ph.D. in plant biology at the University of Texas at Austin, I conducted postdoctoral research in the fields of evolutionary biology and bioinformatics at the Ohio State University. I then proceeded to the Freie Universität Berlin to conduct postdoctoral research in plant phylogenetics and bioinformatics, teach as a lecturer, and have successfully completed my habilitation proceedings.
Website: http://michael-gruenstaeudl.de
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