Leo van Iersel

After studying applied mathematics at the University of Twente, I obtained my PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology. After that, I have worked as a postdoc at the University of Canterbury, as a teacher in primary and secondary schools in Tanzania and Kenya and as a researcher at CWI in Amsterdam. Since 2014, I am an assistant professor at TU Delft (tenured since 2017).

Upcoming workshop

• Distinguishability in genealogical phylogenetic networks, 13 – 17 August 2018, Lorentz Center, Leiden. Scientific organizers: Leo van Iersel, Steven Kelk, David Morrison and Celine Scornavacca.

Organized workshops

• Utilizing Genealogical Phylogenetic Networks in Evolutionary Biology: Touching the Data, 7-11 July 2014, Lorentz Center, Leiden.
• The Future of Phylogenetic Networks, 15-19 October 2012, Lorentz Center, Leiden.

Program Committee memberships

• BCB 2017
• AAIM 2016
  
• ESA 2015

Grants

• Vidi grant “Encoding, reconstructing and comparing complex evolutionary scenarios” funded by NWO.
  
• Veni grant “Bringing phylogenetic networks to life” funded by NWO.

New papers and preprints (a full list is here)

• Leo van Iersel, Mark Jones and Steven Kelk. A third strike against perfect phylogeny. arXiv:1804.07232 [cs.DM] (2018).
• Péter L. Erdős, Leo van Iersel and Mark Jones. Not all phylogenetic networks are leaf-reconstructible. arXiv:1803.03197 [math.CO] (2018).
• Leo van Iersel, Remie Janssen, Mark Jones, Yukihiro Murakami and Norbert Zeh. Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Phylogenetic Inference Problems.  Preliminary version in AlCoB 2018, LNBI 10849: 37–49 (2018). (arXiv)
• Leo van Iersel, Mark Jones and Celine Scornavacca. Improved maximum parsimony models for phylogenetic networks. Systematic Biology, 67(3):518-542 (2018) (free-access link) (preprint).
• Janosch Döcker, Leo van Iersel, Steven Kelk, Simone Linz. Deciding the existence of a cherry-picking sequence is hard on two trees. arXiv:1712.02965 [q-bio.PE] (2017).
• Remie Janssen, Mark Jones, Péter L. Erdős, Leo van Iersel, Celine Scornavacca. Exploring the tiers of rooted phylogenetic network space using tail moves. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 80 (8): 2177–2208 (2018).
• Steven Kelk, Fabio Pardi, Celine Scornavacca and Leo van Iersel. Finding the most parsimonious or likely tree in a network with respect to an alignment. Journal of Mathematical Biology, to appear. (arXiv)
• Philippe Gambette, Leo van Iersel, Mark Jones, Manuel Lafond, Fabio Pardi and Celine Scornavacca. Rearrangement moves on rooted phylogenetic networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(8):e1005611 (2017).
• Péter L. Erdős, Stephen G. Hartke, Leo van Iersel and István Miklós. Graph realizations constrained by skeleton graphs. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 24 (2), \#P2.47 (2017).
• Leo van Iersel and Vincent Moulton. Leaf-reconstructibility of phylogenetic networks. Accepted to appear in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. arXiv:1701.08982 [math.CO] (2017).

In Dutch:

• Leo van Iersel. Hoe zijn ze verwant? Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 5/16 (3): 174-178 (2015).

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