Kristina Wicke
Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
507 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
I obtained B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Biomathematics from the University of Greifswald in Germany. I then was a President's Postdoctoral Scholar at The Ohio State University, before joining NJIT in 2022.
Education
Ph.D.
; University of Greifswald
; Biomathematics
; 2020
M.S. ; University of Greifswald ; Biomathematics ; 2016
B.S. ; University of Greifswald ; Biomathematics ; 2015
M.S. ; University of Greifswald ; Biomathematics ; 2016
B.S. ; University of Greifswald ; Biomathematics ; 2015
Office Hours
MF 10am - 11am
2025 Fall Courses
MATH 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MATH 112 - CALCULUS II
MATH 112 - CALCULUS II
Teaching Interests
Probability, Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Models in Biology, Calculus
Past Courses
MATH 111: CALCULUS I
MATH 112: CALCULUS II
MATH 244: INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY THEORY
MATH 345: MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS
MATH 707: ST: INTRODUCTION TO GRAPH THEORY
MATH 112: CALCULUS II
MATH 244: INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY THEORY
MATH 345: MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS
MATH 707: ST: INTRODUCTION TO GRAPH THEORY
Research Interests
Mathematical Phylogenetics, Graph Theory, Combinatorics
Journal Article
Ann Clifton, Éva Czabarka, Kevin Liu, Sarah Loeb, Utku Okur, László Székely, Kristina Wicke.
2026. "Reconstruction of caterpillar tanglegrams."
Discrete Applied Mathematics , vol. 378 , pp. 647-661.
Niels Holtgrefe, Elizabeth S. Allman, Hector Baños, Leo van Iersel, Vincent Moulton, John A. Rhodes, Kristina Wicke. 2025. "Distinguishing Phylogenetic Level-2 Networks with Quartets and Inter-Taxon Quartet Distances." Bulletin of Mathematical Biology , vol. 87 , no. 12 , pp. 35 pages.
Mareike Fischer, Tom Niklas Hamann, Kristina Wicke. 2025. "Metaconcepts of Rooted Tree Balance." Bulletin of Mathematical Biology , vol. 87 , no. 9 , pp. 56 pages.
Elizabeth S Allman, Hector Banos, John A Rhodes, Kristina Wicke. 2025. "NANUQ+: A divide-and-conquer approach to network estimation." Algorithms for Molecular Biology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , pp. 25 pages.
Sophie J. Kersting, Kristina Wicke, Mareike Fischer. 2025. "Tree balance in phylogenetic models." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 380 , no. 1919 , pp. 15 pages.
Niels Holtgrefe, Elizabeth S. Allman, Hector Baños, Leo van Iersel, Vincent Moulton, John A. Rhodes, Kristina Wicke. 2025. "Distinguishing Phylogenetic Level-2 Networks with Quartets and Inter-Taxon Quartet Distances." Bulletin of Mathematical Biology , vol. 87 , no. 12 , pp. 35 pages.
Mareike Fischer, Tom Niklas Hamann, Kristina Wicke. 2025. "Metaconcepts of Rooted Tree Balance." Bulletin of Mathematical Biology , vol. 87 , no. 9 , pp. 56 pages.
Elizabeth S Allman, Hector Banos, John A Rhodes, Kristina Wicke. 2025. "NANUQ+: A divide-and-conquer approach to network estimation." Algorithms for Molecular Biology , vol. 20 , no. 1 , pp. 25 pages.
Sophie J. Kersting, Kristina Wicke, Mareike Fischer. 2025. "Tree balance in phylogenetic models." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 380 , no. 1919 , pp. 15 pages.
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Software
"poweRbal: Phylogenetic Tree Models and the Power of Tree Shape Statistics"
The R Foundation, June, 2024.
"treebalance: Computation of Tree (Im)Balance Indices"
The R Foundation, September, 2021.
"MSCquartets: Analyzing Gene Tree Quartets under the Multi-Species Coalescent"
The R Foundation, December, 2019.
The R Foundation, June, 2024.
"treebalance: Computation of Tree (Im)Balance Indices"
The R Foundation, September, 2021.
"MSCquartets: Analyzing Gene Tree Quartets under the Multi-Species Coalescent"
The R Foundation, December, 2019.
Book
Mareike Fischer, Lina Herbst, Sophie Kersting, Luise Kühn, Kristina Wicke.
"Tree Balance Indices - A Comprehensive Survey."
404 pp. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023. ISBN 978-3-031-39799-8.
Professional
Systematic Biology
Editor, Associate Editor , 2024
Editor, Associate Editor , 2024