Prof Tanja Stadler is a professor of computational evolution. After her PhD at the Technical University of Munich she joined ETH Zürich as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Environmental Systems Sciences. In 2014 she moved to the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor where she obtained tenure in 2017 and was promoted to a Full Professor in 2021. Her research addresses core questions in the life sciences through an evolutionary perspective, in particular in macroevolution, epidemiology, and developmental biology.