Tianjian QinPhD

Computational biology & AI

Life is interconnected.I build tools to understand how.

Experience

Research experience

Wageningen University & Research

Postdoctoral Researcher

Develop AI and computational methods for One Health and pandemic preparedness, including temporal networks, network-phylodynamic inference, spatiotemporal epidemic modelling and neural/hybrid AI for detection and projection. Build reproducible HPC pipelines and interactive web tools.

University of Groningen

Doctoral Researcher in Theoretical & Computational Biology

Developed simulation and inference methods for evolutionary diversification and research packages in R, C++ and Python, with CPU/GPU computing, testing, documentation and open releases.

Academic path

Education

University of Groningen

PhD in Theoretical Biology · Groningen, Netherlands

Diversification Models and Neural Inference

Beijing Forestry University

MSc in Wetland Ecology · Beijing, China

Wetland invasion resistance and community assembly, field surveys across 18 Chinese provinces, controlled experiments, image analysis and phylogenetic workflows.

Nanjing Normal University

BSc in Marine Biology · Nanjing, China

Exchange

Talks & workshops

Networks, Transmission, and Control

WUR MIND Day 2026 · Impulse Building, Wageningen

Hosting a workshop on trade networks · 14:10–15:10

Workshop

From Livestock Movements to Infection Dynamics: Mechanism-Informed Learning for Synthetic Contact Networks

ModAH Conference 2026 · Nantes, France

Milestones

Recognition

Denise Kirschner Best Student Paper Prize

Journal of Theoretical Biology

First-Class Academic Performance Award

Beijing Forestry University

Graduate Academic Innovation Award

Beijing Forestry University

Contact

Get in touch

Working on an interesting question in biology, networks or AI? Let’s connect.

tianjian.qin@wur.nl