Dr Simone Linz
MSc, PhD
Biography
Simone Linz is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Auckland and an Associate Investigator of Te Pūnaha Matatini - The Centre for Complex Systems and Networks (CoRE).
Prior to joining the University of Auckland, she was a Marie Curie Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury and in the Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen, funded by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship and awarded by the European Commission.
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Research | Current
Mathematical and computational biology; in particular algorithmic and combinatorial problems arising in phylogenetics, i.e. the reconstruction and analysis of evolutionary trees and networks.
Teaching | Current
2020 S1 COMPSCI 720
2120 S2 COMPSCI 220
All teaching material is available on Canvas.
Postgraduate supervision
Current PhD students:
- Nguyet Tran (as co-supervisor)
Completed PhD stduents:
- Jonathan Klawitter (as senior supervisor)
- Paul Cordue (as associate supervisor, University of Canterbury)
Distinctions/Honours
2019 Co-organizer of a Dagstuhl Seminar on Algorithms and Complexity in Phylogenetics (proposal accepted 02/2019). Co-organizers: Prof. Magnus Bordewich (Durham, UK), Dr Britta Dorn (Tübingen, Germany), and Prof. Rolf Niedermeier (Berlin, Germany). Final Report: here.
2015 Marsden Fund Fast-Start Grant (PI) for three years, awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
2015 Selected participant of the year-long Women in Leadership Programme 2016 at the University of Auckland.
2011 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship for three years, awarded by the European Commission.
Committees/Professional groups/Services
School of Computer Science (current only):
- Deputy Head of School (Academic), since 02/2020
- Executive Committee, since 02/2020
- Academic Committee, since 2017 (in various roles including chair since 02/2020)
Faculty of Science (current only):
- Pacific Reference Group, since 02/2020
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Linz, S., & Semple, C. (2020). Caterpillars on three and four leaves are sufficient to reconstruct binary normal networks. Journal of mathematical biology, 81 (4-5), 961-980. 10.1007/s00285-020-01533-7
- Kelk, S., & Linz, S. (2020). New Reduction Rules for the Tree Bisection and Reconnection Distance. ANNALS OF COMBINATORICS, 24 (3), 475-502. 10.1007/s00026-020-00502-7
- Doecker, J., Dorn, B., Linz, S., & Semple, C. (2020). Placing quantified variants of 3-SAT and NOT-ALL-EQUAL 3-SAT in the polynomial hierarchy. THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, 822, 72-91. 10.1016/j.tcs.2020.04.003
- Tran, N., Dinneen, M. J., & Linz, S. (2020). Computing close to optimal weighted shortest paths in practice. Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS.
- Doecker, J., Linz, S., & Semple, C. (2019). Displaying trees across two phylogenetic networks. THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, 796, 129-146. 10.1016/j.tcs.2019.09.003
- Kelk, S., & Linz, S. (2019). A tight kernel for computing the tree bisection and reconnection distance between two phylogenetic trees. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 33 (3), 1556-1574. 10.1137/18M122724X
- Doecker, J., van Iersel, L., Kelk, S., & Linz, S. (2019). Deciding the existence of a cherry-picking sequence is hard on two trees. DISCRETE APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 260, 131-143. 10.1016/j.dam.2019.01.031
- Klawitter, J., & Linz, S. (2019). On the Subnet Prune and Regraft Distance. ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS, 26 (2)
Identifiers
Contact details
Primary office location
SCIENCE CENTRE 303S - Bldg 303S
Level 4, Room 481
38 PRINCES ST
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand