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
M 2-4 pm
2026 Spring 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
Simone Linz, Kristina Wicke.
2026. "What Is... Phylogenetics?."
Notices of the American Mathematical Society , vol. 73 , no. 2 , pp. 140-143.
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.
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.
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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