He is also a member of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and the Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology at The University of Texas at Austin. Claus O Wilke received his PhD in theoretical physics from the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, in 1999. From 2000 to 2004, he was a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology, working on viral evolution and artificial life. After his postdoc, he spent a year as a Research Assistant Professor at the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, before joining The University of Texas in the fall of 2005. His current research interests are in molecular evolution, structural biology, and biostatistics.