Leo van Iersel

After studying applied mathematics at the University of Twente, I obtained my PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology with Leen Stougie, Gerhard Woeginger and Judith Keijsper. After that, I have worked as a postdoc at the University of Canterbury with Mike Steel and Charles Semple, as a teacher in primary and secondary schools in Tanzania and Kenya and as a researcher at CWI in Amsterdam. Since November 2014, I am an assistant professor at TU Delft.

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 and Vincent Moulton. Leaf-reconstructibility of phylogenetic networks, arXiv:1701.08982 [math.CO] (2017).
• Leo van Iersel, Vincent Moulton, Eveline de Swart and Taoyang Wu. Binets: fundamental building blocks for phylogenetic networks. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, DOI: 10.1007/s11538-017-0275-4.
• Laura Jetten and Leo van Iersel. Nonbinary tree-based phylogenetic networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. DOI:10.1109/TCBB.2016.2615918. (arXiv).
• Martijn van Ee, Leo van Iersel, Teun Janssen and Rene Sitters. A Priori TSP in the Scenario Model. WAOA2016, LNCS 10138, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51741-4_15.
• Leo van Iersel, Steven Kelk, Georgios Stamoulis, Leen Stougie and Olivier Boes. On unrooted and root-uncertain variants of several well-known phylogenetic network problems,  arXiv:1609.00544 [cs.DS] (2016).
• Philippe Gambette, Leo van Iersel, Steven Kelk, Fabio Pardi and Celine Scornavacca. Do branch lengths help to locate a tree in a phylogenetic network? Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 78 (9): 1773–1795 (2016). (arXiv).
• Péter L. Erdős, Stephen G. Hartke, Leo van Iersel and István Miklós. Graph realizations constrained by skeleton graphs. arXiv:1508.00542 [math.CO] (2015).

In Dutch:

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