Prof. Dr.
Leonhard
Held
Abteilungsleiter, Professor für Biostatistik
Tel.:
+41 44 634 4640
leonhard.held
OFFICE HOURS
Monday 11-12 am
BIOGRAPHY
I joined the University of Zurich in September 2006, accepting a position as chair in Biostatistics at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine.
Before heading the Biostatistics Unit I spent four years (2003-2006) at the Department of Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich as Associate Professor of Biostatistics. This followed a period as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics at Imperial College London (2000-2001) and Lancaster University (2001-2002) respectively.
I obtained my Ph.D. in 1997 on "Hierarchical Modelling of Longitudinal Data; Applications of Markov chain Monte Carlo" from the Department of Statistics at LMU under the supervision of Ludwig Fahrmeir. In 1995/96 I spent a year as Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle, financed through a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service. In my LMU diploma thesis in Statistics (1993) I worked on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for non-normal state-space models.
I was Co-Editor of Biometrical Journal between 2008 and 2011, jointly with Tim Friede.
I served as Associate Editor for Biostatistics (2001-2007), Applied Statistics (JRSSC) (2002-2005) and Statistical Modelling(2007-2008).
RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
NEW BOOK: Methoden der Statistischen Inferenz: Likelihood und Bayes (2008)
"The non-standard choice of the material makes this well written text a very interesting reading [...]" Review Zentralblatt Mathematik
OTHER BOOKS:
- Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems (2007, jointly edited with Bärbel Finkenstädt and Valerie Isham
- Gaussian Markov Random Fields: Theory and Applications (2005, with Havard Rue)
For publications and further details see my CV: