Nicholas Matzke
Senior Lecturer at The Australian National University
Canberra, District of Canberra Central, New Zealand
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Top SchoolNicholas Matzke is a Senior Lecturer and computational phylogeneticist with 17 years of experience developing statistical and computational methods for biogeography and species distribution modeling. Based in Canberra and affiliated with the University of Auckland and ANU as a DECRA Fellow, he blends rigorous evolutionary biology insight with advanced programming and quantitative modeling. He earned a PhD in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley and has held research positions at NIMBioS and Berkeley, bringing a strong mathematical-biology perspective to practical ecological problems. Nicholas maintains an actively curated CV and publication record (Google Scholar) and is known for making reproducible, open methodological tools available to the community. An unusual strength is his cross-disciplinary grounding—from field-informed biogeography to formal statistical method development—allowing him to translate complex biological questions into tractable computational approaches.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Integrative Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Integrative Biology at University of California, BerkeleyMasters, Geography, A, Masters, Geography, A at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Science - BS, Biology and Chemistry, 3.987, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology and Chemistry, 3.987 at Valparaiso University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
bayesian10
state-space10
rscript10
biogeography10
r-package9
evolution9
phylogenetics9
sse9
dde8
dynamical-systems8
ode7
r7
mediawiki7
differential-equations7
stochastic-processes7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nmatzke/treeflaws
Jul 2017 - May 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years
nmatzke/njmtools
Sep 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 10 months
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