About Me
News & upcoming events
4 February 2025: Dortmunder Tag der Statistik (DOTS 2025), für Schüler*innen der SEK II, Lehrer*innen, Eltern und alle Interessierten an einem Studium der Statistik und Data Science. Vortrag: "Verstehen und Vorhersagen: Statistik und Machine Learning in der Biomedizin". Hier registrieren
24 Marach 2025: DAGStat 2025 Tutorial, "Variable selection and prediction modelling for high-dimensional genomic data", together with Hannah Klinkhammer (University of Bonn). Register here
Summer Semester 2025: New course Sparse Modelling of High-Dimensional Biomedical Data for MSc Statistik & MSc Data Science students at TU Dortmund University. Course introduction video
In April 2024, I started as Junior Professor (with Tenure Track) at the Department of Statistics at TU Dortmund, and as Head of the new Junior Research Group Biostatistical Methods for Environmental Medicine at the Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (IUF) in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Previously, I had been Interim Professor of Computational Statistics at RWTH Aachen University for the winter semester 2023/24. Additionally, I had been a PostDoc in the group Statistical Methods in Epidemiology of Prof. Andreas Mayr at IMBIE, University of Bonn. See also my CV.
I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics).
As a statistician with a mathematical background, I work at the intersection of Statistics, Computing and Biomedical Applications. My research particularly focuses on Statistical Learning and Regression Modelling for high-dimensional and complex biomedical data.
High-dimensional Statistics: Variable selection; Regularization; Bayesian methods
Computational Methods: Stochastic search; Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Boosting
Biomedical Applications: Polygenic risk scores and gene-environment interactions; Environmental epidemiology; COVID-19 modelling; Various applications in perinatal epidemiology, oncology, anesthesia, psychiatry and neuropsychology
For links to papers and talks see Research. The full list of publications is on Google Scholar.
For information on current courses see Teaching.