Awards & Winners

Joe Felsenstein

Joseph "Joe" Felsenstein is Professor in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Biology and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is best known for his work on phylogenetic inference, and is the author of Inferring Phylogenies, and principal author and distributor of the package of phylogenetic inference programs called PHYLIP. Closely related to his work on phylogenetic inference is his introduction of methods for making statistically independent comparisons using phylogenies.

Awards by Joe Felsenstein

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joe Felsenstein.

2013


International Prize for Biology
(Biology of Evolution)

2009


John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
(Evolution. For revolutionizing population genetics, phylogenetic biology, and systematics by developing a sophisticated computational framework to deduce evolutionary relationships of genes and species from molecular data.)