Joseph Felsenstein

Joe Felsenstein
Joe Felsenstein
	Joe Felsenstein
Born	Joseph Felsenstein; May 9, 1942
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Known for	PHYLIP; Felsenstein's tree-pruning algorithm
Awards	Sewall Wright Award (1993); Weldon Memorial Prize (2000); Darwin–Wallace Medal (2008); John J. Carty award (2009); International Prize for Biology (2013)
	Scientific career
Fields	Systematics; Phylogenetics; Population genetics; Phylogenetic comparative methods
Institutions	University of Washington
Thesis	Statistical Inference and the Estimation of Phylogenies (1968)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Lewontin
Notable students	Fred W. Allendorf; Michael Turelli; Bruce Walsh
Website	www.gs.washington.edu/faculty/felsenstein.htm; evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/felsenstein.html

Joseph "Joe" Felsenstein (born May 9, 1942) is a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Biology 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.

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