CV
Education
- 2007: PhD in Physics, LMU Munich. Advisor Prof. Ulrich Gerland
- 2004: Diploma in Physics, LMU Munich
- 2000: Vordiplom Physics, University of Göttingen
Positions
- since 2017: Associate Professor at the Biozentrum, University of Basel
- 2010 - 2017: Independent Max-Planck Research Group Leader, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
- 2007 - 2010: Postdoctoral Fellow at KITP, UC Santa Barbara.
Alexander Kuznetsov, Rainer Gosert, Ulrich Heininger
Swiss Medical Weekly, 155 4600--4600. 10.57187/s.4600 bibtex
Richard A. Neher, John Huddleston, Trevor Bedford
medRxiv, 10.64898/2025.12.06.25341755 bibtex
Zesuliwe Jule, Cornelius Romer, Taskeen Hossen
medRxiv, 10.1101/2025.10.28.25338622 bibtex
Jemma M. Fendley, Marco Molari, Richard A. Neher and Boris I. Shraiman
bioRxiv, 10.1101/2025.08.12.669904 bibtex
Jordan T Ort, Samuel S Shepard, Sonja A Zolnoski
Virus Evolution, 11 veaf058. 10.1093/ve/veaf058 bibtex
Christopher Ruis, Eddy Lusamaki, Aine O'Toole
Nature Medicine, 31 2854--2858. 10.1038/s41591-025-03820-6 bibtex
Hugh K Haddox, Georg Angehrn, Luca Sesta
Nucleic Acids Research, 53 gkaf503. 10.1093/nar/gkaf503 bibtex
Manoj K. Singh, Theresa Lauster, Kerstin Huhn
bioRxiv, 10.1101/2025.06.03.657657 bibtex
Richard A Neher
Virus Evolution, 11 veaf040. 10.1093/ve/veaf040 bibtex
Valentin Druelle, Marco Molari, Giacomo Castagnetti, Alexander Harms and Richard A. Neher
bioRxiv, 10.1101/2025.04.16.649189 bibtex
Emma B. Hodcroft, Martin S. Wohlfender, Richard A. Neher, Julien Riou and Christian L. Althaus
PLOS Computational Biology, 21 e1012960. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012960 bibtex
Marco Molari, Liam P Shaw and Richard A Neher
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msae272. 10.1093/molbev/msae272 bibtex
Alex Sigal, Richard A. Neher and Richard J. Lessells
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 1--15. 10.1038/s41579-024-01125-y bibtex
Pierre Barrat-Charlaix and Richard A. Neher
eLife, 13 10.7554/eLife.97350.2 bibtex
Stephanie Goya, Christopher Ruis, Richard A. Neher
Emerging infectious diseases, 10.3201/eid3008.240209 bibtex
Fanny Wegner, Blanca Cabrera-Gil, Araud Tanguy
Microbiology Spectrum, 0 e03628--23. 10.1128/spectrum.03628-23 bibtex
Julie Sollier, Marek Basler, Petr Broz
Nature Microbiology, 9 1--3. 10.1038/s41564-023-01566-w bibtex
Gila Lustig, Yashica Ganga, Hylton E Rodel
Virus Evolution, 10 vead075. 10.1093/ve/vead075 bibtex
Liam P. Shaw and Richard A. Neher
Microbial Genomics, 9 001168. 10.1099/mgen.0.001168 bibtex
Khadija Khan, Gila Lustig, Cornelius Romer
Nature Communications, 14 8078. 10.1038/s41467-023-43703-3 bibtex
Aine O'Toole, Richard A. Neher, Nnaemeka Ndodo
Science, 382 595--600. 10.1126/science.adg8116 bibtex
Vitor Borges, Mariana Perez Duque, Joao Vieira Martins
Nature Medicine, 1--9. 10.1038/s41591-023-02542-x bibtex
Jesse D. Bloom and Richard A. Neher
Virus Evolution, in press, 10.1101/2023.01.30.526314 bibtex
Nicholas Noll, Marco Molari, Liam Shaw and Richard Neher
Microbial Genomics, in press., 2022.02.24.481757. 10.1101/2022.02.24.481757 bibtex
Jesse D Bloom, Annabel C Beichman, Richard A Neher and Kelley Harris
Molecular Biology and Evolution, msad085. 10.1093/molbev/msad085 bibtex
Bernadeta Dadonaite, Katharine H. D. Crawford, Caelan E. Radford
Cell, 186 1263--1278.e20. 10.1016/j.cell.2023.02.001 bibtex
Valentin Druelle and Richard A Neher
Virus Evolution, 9 veac118. 10.1093/ve/veac118 bibtex
Richard A Neher
Virus Evolution, 8 veac113. 10.1093/ve/veac113 bibtex
Martina L. Reichmuth, Emma B. Hodcroft, Julien Riou
Epidemics, 41 100654. 10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100654 bibtex
Sarah A. Nadeau, Timothy G. Vaughan, Christiane Beckmann
Science Translational Medicine, 0 eabn7979. 10.1126/scitranslmed.abn7979 bibtex
Christian Happi, Ifedayo Adetifa, Placide Mbala
PLOS Biology, 20 e3001769. 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001769 bibtex
Pierre Barrat-Charlaix, Timothy G. Vaughan and Richard A. Neher
PLOS Computational Biology, 18 e1010394. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010394 bibtex
Emma B. Hodcroft, Robert Dyrdak, Cristina Andres
PLOS Pathogens, 18 e1010515. 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010515 pdf bibtex
Jana S Huisman, Jeremie Scire, Daniel C Angst
eLife, 11 e71345. 10.7554/eLife.71345 bibtex
Ivan Aksamentov, Cornelius Roemer, Emma B. Hodcroft and Richard A. Neher
Journal of Open Source Software, 6 3773. 10.21105/joss.03773 bibtex
Frank Konings, Mark D. Perkins, Jens H. Kuhn
Nature Microbiology, 1--3. 10.1038/s41564-021-00932-w bibtex
Emma B. Hodcroft, Moira Zuber, Sarah Nadeau
Nature, 1--9. 10.1038/s41586-021-03677-y bibtex
Kimberley S.M. Benschop, Eeva K. Broberg, Emma Hodcroft
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27 1616--1626. 10.3201/eid2706.203096 bibtex
Erik Boehm, Ilona Kronig, Richard A. Neher
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.05.022 bibtex
Jesse D. Bloom, Yujia Alina Chan, Ralph S. Baric
Science, 372 694--694. 10.1126/science.abj0016 bibtex
Chantal B. F. Vogels, Mallery I. Breban, Isabel M. Ott
PLOS Biology, 19 e3001236. 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001236 bibtex
Ana Rita Goncalves Cabecinhas, Tim Roloff, Madlen Stange
Microorganisms, 9 677. 10.3390/microorganisms9040677 bibtex
Pierre Barrat-Charlaix, John Huddleston, Trevor Bedford and Richard A Neher
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 10.1093/molbev/msab065 bibtex
Robert Dyrdak, Emma B. Hodcroft, Martina Wahlund, Richard A. Neher and Jan Albert
Journal of Clinical Virology, 136 104754. 10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104754 bibtex
John Huddleston, James Hadfield, Thomas R. Sibley
Journal of Open Source Software, 6 2906. 10.21105/joss.02906 bibtex
Dylan H Morris, Velislava N Petrova, Fernando W Rossine
eLife, 9 e62105. 10.7554/eLife.62105 bibtex
Trevor Bedford, Alexander L. Greninger, Pavitra Roychoudhury
Science, 10.1126/science.abc0523 bibtex
John Huddleston, John R Barnes, Thomas Rowe
eLife, 9 e60067. 10.7554/eLife.60067 bibtex
Erik Alm, Eeva K. Broberg, Thomas Connor
Eurosurveillance, 25 2001410. 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.32.2001410 bibtex
Vadim Puller, Pavel Sagulenko and Richard A. Neher
Virus Evolution, 10.1093/ve/veaa066 pdf bibtex
Carla Mavian, Sergei Kosakovsky Pond, Simone Marini
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2007295117 bibtex
Joseph R. Fauver, Mary E. Petrone, Emma B. Hodcroft
Cell, 181 990--996.e5. 10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.021 pdf bibtex
Marcel Salathe, Christian L. Althaus, Richard Neher
Swiss Medical Weekly, 150 10.4414/smw.2020.20225 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher, Robert Dyrdak, Valentin Druelle, Emma B. Hodcroft and Jan Albert
Swiss Medical Weekly, 150 10.4414/smw.2020.20224 pdf bibtex
Manuel Battegay, Richard Kuehl, Sarah Tschudin-Sutter
Swiss Medical Weekly, 150 10.4414/smw.2020.20203 pdf bibtex
Barney I. Potter, Rebecca Kondor, James Hadfield
Virus Evolution, 5 10.1093/ve/vez046 bibtex
Le Yan, Richard A Neher and Boris I Shraiman
eLife, 8 e44205. 10.7554/eLife.44205 pdf bibtex
Robert Dyrdak, Monika Mastafa, Emma B. Hodcroft, Richard A. Neher and Jan Albert
Virus Evolution, 5 10.1093/ve/vez007 pdf bibtex
Olivier Cunrath, Dominik M. Meinel, Pauline Maturana
EBioMedicine, 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.02.061 bibtex
Daniel Wuthrich, Daniela Lang, Nicola F. Muller
Journal of Virological Methods, 266 30--33. 10.1016/j.jviromet.2019.01.009 bibtex
Adrian Egli, Dominique S. Blanc, Gilbert Greub
Swiss Medical Weekly, 148 w14693. 10.4414/smw.2018.14693 bibtex
Nicholas Noll, Eric Ulrich, Daniel Wuthrich
bioRxiv -- won't submit, 456897. 10.1101/456897 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Trevor Bedford
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 56 e00480--18. 10.1128/JCM.00480-18 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher
bioRxiv -- won't submit, 408005. 10.1101/408005 pdf bibtex
Mumina Javed, Viola Ueltzhoeffer, Maximilian Heinrich
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 10.1093/jac/dky337 bibtex
Talia L. Karasov, Juliana Almario, Claudia Friedemann
Cell Host & Microbe, 24 168--179.e4. 10.1016/j.chom.2018.06.011 pdf bibtex
James Hadfield, Colin Megill, Sidney M. Bell
Bioinformatics, 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty407 pdf bibtex
Laurelle Jackson, Jessica Hunter, Sandile Cele
eLife, 7 e30134. 10.7554/eLife.30134 pdf bibtex
Pavel Sagulenko, Vadim Puller and Richard A. Neher
Virus Evolution, 4 vex042. 10.1093/ve/vex042 pdf bibtex
Dylan H. Morris, Katelyn M. Gostic, Simone Pompei
Trends in Microbiology, 10.1016/j.tim.2017.09.004 bibtex
Wei Ding, Franz Baumdicker and Richard A. Neher
Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkx977 pdf bibtex
Vadim Puller, Richard Neher and Jan Albert
PLOS Computational Biology, 13 e1005775. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005775 pdf bibtex
Bianca Doesselmann, Matthias Willmann, Matthias Steglich
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, AAC.00043--17. 10.1128/AAC.00043-17 pdf bibtex
Yuan You, Aneta Sawikowska, Manuela Neumann
Nature Communications, 8 15120. 10.1038/ncomms15120 pdf bibtex
Fabio Zanini, Vadim Puller, Johanna Brodin, Jan Albert and Richard A. Neher
Virus Evol, 3 10.1093/ve/vex003 pdf bibtex
Fabio Zanini, Johanna Brodin, Jan Albert and Richard A. Neher
Virus research, 10.1016/j.virusres.2016.12.009 bibtex
Johanna Brodin, Fabio Zanini, Lina Thebo
eLife, 5 10.7554/eLife.18889 pdf bibtex
Mikael Boulle, Thorsten G. Muller, Sabrina Dahling
PLoS pathogens, 12 e1005964. 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005964 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher, Trevor Bedford, Rodney S. Daniels, Colin A. Russell and Boris I. Shraiman
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 E1701--1709. 10.1073/pnas.1525578113 pdf bibtex
Fabio Zanini, Johanna Brodin, Lina Thebo
eLife, 4 10.7554/eLife.11282 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Trevor Bedford
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 31 3546--3548. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv381 pdf bibtex
Johanna Brodin, Charlotte Hedskog, Alexander Heddini
PloS one, 10 e0119123. 10.1371/journal.pone.0119123 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher, Colin A. Russell and Boris I. Shraiman
eLife, 3 10.7554/eLife.03568 pdf bibtex
Christian Rodelsperger, Richard A. Neher, Andreas M. Weller
Genetics, 196 1153--1165. 10.1534/genetics.113.159855 pdf bibtex
Benjamin H. Good, Aleksandra M. Walczak, Richard A. Neher and Michael M. Desai
PLoS genetics, 10 e1004222. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004222 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 44 195--215. 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135920 bibtex
Taylor A. Kessinger, Alan S. Perelson and Richard A. Neher
Frontiers in immunology, 4 252. 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00252 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher, Taylor A. Kessinger and Boris I. Shraiman
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 15836--15841. 10.1073/pnas.1309697110 pdf bibtex
Fabio Zanini and Richard A. Neher
Journal of virology, 87 11843--11850. 10.1128/JVI.01529-13 pdf bibtex
Amrita Mukherjee, Richard A. Neher and Andrew D. Renault
Journal of cell science, 126 5453--5464. 10.1242/jcs.136176 pdf bibtex
Vitaly V. Ganusov, Richard A. Neher and Alan S. Perelson
Journal of statistical mechanics (Online), 2013 P01010. 10.1088/1742-5468/2013/01/P01010 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher, Marija Vucelja, Mark Mezard and Boris I. Shraiman
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2013 P01008. 10.1088/1742-5468/2013/01/P01008 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Oskar Hallatschek
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 437--442. 10.1073/pnas.1213113110 pdf bibtex
Fabio Zanini and Richard A. Neher
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 28 3332--3333. 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts633 pdf bibtex
Sidhartha Goyal, Daniel J. Balick, Elizabeth R. Jerison
Genetics, 191 1309--1319. 10.1534/genetics.112.141291 bibtex
Philipp W. Messer and Richard A. Neher
Genetics, 191 593--605. 10.1534/genetics.112.138461 bibtex
Thomas Schotz, Richard A. Neher and Ulrich Gerland
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 84 051911. 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.051911 bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Boris I. Shraiman
Reviews of Modern Physics, 83 1283--1300. 10.1103/RevModPhys.83.1283 bibtex
Benjamin Callahan, Richard A. Neher, Doris Bachtrog, Peter Andolfatto and Boris I. Shraiman
PLoS genetics, 7 e1001315. 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001315 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Thomas Leitner
PLoS computational biology, 6 e1000660. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000660 pdf bibtex
Richard A. Neher, Miso Mitkovski, Frank Kirchhoff
Biophysical journal, 96 3791--3800. 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.10.068 bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Boris I. Shraiman
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106 6866--6871. 10.1073/pnas.0812560106 pdf bibtex
Ferdinand Kuhner, Julia Morfill, Richard A. Neher, Kerstin Blank and Hermann E. Gaub
Biophysical journal, 92 2491--2497. 10.1529/biophysj.106.095836 bibtex
Richard A. Neher, Wolfram Mobius, Erwin Frey and Ulrich Gerland
Physical review letters, 99 178101. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.178101 bibtex
Wolfram Mobius, Richard A. Neher and Ulrich Gerland
Physical review letters, 97 208102. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.208102 bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Ulrich Gerland
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 73 030902. 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.030902 bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Ulrich Gerland
Biophysical journal, 89 3846--3855. 10.1529/biophysj.105.068866 bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Erwin Neher
Microscopy research and technique, 64 185--195. 10.1002/jemt.20078 bibtex
Richard A. Neher and Ulrich Gerland
Physical review letters, 93 198102. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.198102 bibtex