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Jotun Hein

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Nationality
  
Denmark

Education
  
University of Oxford

Name
  
Jotun Hein

Residence
  
United Kingdom


Role
  
Mathematician

Fields
  
Bioinformatics

Parents
  
Piet Hein

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Born
  
19 July 1956 (age 67) (
1956-07-19
)

Institutions
  
Aarhus University University of Oxford

Books
  
Gene genealogies, variation and evolution

Grandparents
  
Hjalmar Hein, Estrid Hein

Jotun John Piet Hein (born 19 July 1956) is Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow of University College, Oxford. Hein was previously Director of Bioinformatics Research Centre at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Hein is the fourth son of Piet Hein, the Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet who wrote the famed Grooks poetry collections and invented the Superegg and the Soma cube. When he was 12 years old, Jotun proved the Soma cube's "Basalt Rock" construction impossible, which was published in the puzzle's instruction manual as "Jotun's Proof."

Hein's research interests are in molecular evolution, molecular population genetics and bioinformatics.

Selected books

  • Hein, J; Schierup, M. H., and Wiuf, C. Gene Genealogies, Variation and Evolution – A Primer in Coalescent Theory. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-852996-1.
  • References

    Jotun Hein Wikipedia