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Claus O. Wilke holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He is currently the Jane Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Molecular Evolution at the University of Texas at Austin. Wilke's research focuses on the evolution of viruses, and he has published nearly 200 scientific papers that cover a range of topics including computational biology, molecular evolution, protein biochemistry, and virology. He is also known for authoring popular R packages that are widely used for data visualization, such as cowplot and ggridges, and he has contributed to the ggplot2 package. In 2019, Wilke published the book 'Fundamentals of Data Visualization,' which provides a concise introduction to effectively visualizing various types of data sets. His work spans several fields, including computational evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, population genetics, statistics, and artificial intelligence.
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