Ellen Baake (born 1961)[1] is a Germanmathematical biologist who works as a professor of biomathematics and theoretical bioinformatics atBielefeld University. Her research usesprobability theory anddifferential equations to study biologicalevolution; she has also studied mathematicalimmunobiology[1] and the mathematical modeling ofphotosynthesis.[2]
Baake earned a diploma in biology in 1985 from theUniversity of Bonn,and completed her Ph.D. there in theoretical biology in 1989.[3] Her dissertation,Ein Differentialgleichungsmodell zur Beschreibung der Fluoreszenzinduktion (OIDP-Kinetik) der Photosynthese, was supervised byWolfgang Alt [de].[2] She earned ahabilitation atLudwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1999 and, after holding faculty positions at several other universities, joined Bielefeld University in 2004.[3]
Baake was an invited speaker at the 2010International Congress of Mathematicians.[4]