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Personal profile
Career
Dr. Katharina Huber was awarded a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, in 1997. After finishing her PhD, she spent two years as a Marsden Postdoctoral fellow at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, working on problems in Phylogenetics. In the beginning of 2000, she moved to Sundsvall, Sweden, where she joined the Department of Mathematics and Physics as a lecturer in Discrete Mathematics. After two years, she moved to Uppsala, Sweden, where she joined the Department of Biometry and Engineering, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and the Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics. In April 2003, she was awarded the title of a "docent" by Uppsala University. In the summer of 2004, she moved to the United Kingdom where she joined the School of Computing Sciences at UEA. In Aug. 2012 she was promoted to Senior Lecturer and in 2019 she was made an Associate Professor. Since Feb. 2011 she has been a member of the London Mathematical Society (LMS).
Research opportunities
Katharina always welcomes enquiries from potential Phd students. She would be particularly keen on recruiting someone to assist her with the development of novel mathematical methodology and algorithms to help understand the complex processes that drive evolution. However she will also seriously consider applicants that would like to work in other any other area of interest to her.
If you would like to do a PhD in the area of Phylogenetics, please feel free to contact her at: [email protected]
Computing Sciences PhD Opportunities
Additional Contacts
Key Responsibilities
Katharina Huber was the School's Director for Postgraduate Research from Oct 2013-Nov 2023. She currently is the School's Chair for it's Undergraduate Board of Examiners and also its Postgraduate Board of Examiners.
Areas of Expertise
Key Research Interests
Katharina Huber is an Associate Professor in Computational Biology and a member of the School's Computational Biology Laboratory. Her research interests range from developing mathematical theory and algorithms to help shed light into the complex processes that drive molecular evolution to the study of combinatorial objects such as cluster systems and (finite) metric spaces. Selected publications from her list of publications may be found below.
Selected Publications
Overlaid species forests. K. T. Huber, V. Moulton, G. E. Scholz. (2022) Discrete Applied Mathematics. 309 110 - 122.
Optimal realizations and the block decomposition of a finite metric space. K. T. Huber, V. Moulton, A. Spillner. (2021) Discrete Applied Mathematics. 302 103 - 113.
The rigid hybrid number for two phylogenetic trees. K. T. Huber, S. Linz, V. Moulton. (2021) Journal of Mathematical Biology. 82 article 40.
Phylogenetic networks that are their own fold-ups, K.T. Huber, G. E. Scholz. (2020) Advances in Applied Mathematics. 113 101959
OSF-Builder: A new tool for constructing and representing phylogenetic histories involving introgression, G. E. Scholz, A.-A. Popescu, M. I. Taylor, V. Moulton, K.T. Huber. (2019) Systematic Biology. 68(5) 717-729.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A.I. and Graph Theoretical Approaches to Small Molecule Structure Elucidation
11/11/24 → 10/11/27
Project: Training
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Novel Combinatorics for Phylogenetic Networks
London Mathematical Society (The)
1/09/25 → 5/09/25
Project: Research
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Smart Environments Research Facility
Aung, M. H., Bagnall, T., Buckley, O., Cawley, G., Day, A., De La Iglesia, B., Finlayson, G., Harvey, R., Huber, K., Kulinskaya, E., Laycock, S., Lines, J., Mackiewicz, M., Milner, B., Moulton, V., Parr, G., Ren, E. & Wang, W.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
10/01/20 → 8/07/22
Project: Research
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Buneman graphs, partial splits and subtree distances
Bryant, D., Huber, K. T., Moulton, V. & Spillner, A., 15 Jul 2025, In: Discrete Applied Mathematics. 369, p. 28-44 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cherry picking in forests: A new characterization for the unrooted hybrid number of two phylogenetic trees
Huber, K., Linz, S. & Moulton, V., 8 May 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Is this network proper forest-based?
Huber, K. T., van Iersel, L., Moulton, V. & Scholz, G. E., Jan 2025, In: Information Processing Letters. 187, 106500.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Message Passing Neural Networks for Predicting 1H and 19F Chemical Shifts
Jones, A., Ponte, S., Iglesias, I., Tonge, N., Williamson, D., Martos, V., Orth, T., Schoenberger, T., Cobas, C., Huber, K. & Kemsley, E. K., 6 Apr 2025.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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SQUIRREL: Reconstructing semi-directed phylogenetic level-1 networks from four-leaved networks or sequence alignments
Holtgrefe, N., Huber, K., van Iersel, L., Jones, M., Martin, S. & Moulton, V., Apr 2025, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42, 4, msaf067.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Novel mathematical paradigm in Phylogenomics
Katharina Huber (Organiser)
24 Aug 2025 → 29 Aug 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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New directions in experimental mathematics at the interface of molecular biology, combinatorics, discrete geometry and algebra
Katharina Huber (Organiser)
30 Jun 2025 → 1 Jul 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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ISMB/ECCB 2025
Katharina Huber (Member of programme committee)
2025 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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The 15th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB2024)
Katharina Huber (Member of programme committee)
22 Nov 2024 → 25 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics
Katharina Huber (Participant)
4 Sept 2024 → 6 Dec 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference