Paulien Hogeweg | |
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Born | 24 December 1943 | (age 80)
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | Universiteit van Amsterdam Utrecht University |
Known for | coined the term Bioinformatics in 1970, Cellular Potts model |
Scientific career | |
Fields | theoretical biologist, bioinformatics, prebiotic evolution, in silico evolution |
Institutions | Utrecht University |
Website | https://tbb.bio.uu.nl/ph/ |
Paulien Hogeweg (born 1943) is a Dutch theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher studying biological systems as dynamic information processing systems at many interconnected levels. In 1970, together with Ben Hesper, she defined the term bioinformatics[2][3][4] as "the study of informatic processes in biotic systems".