Abteilung Biostatistik

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. I am a member of the Faculty of Medicine (MeF) and the Faculty of Science (MNF).

I spent four years (2003-2006) at the Department of Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich as Associate Professor of Biostatistics. Before that I was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics at Imperial College London (2000-2001) and Lancaster University (2001-2002).

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.

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). I am currently Associate Editor of Biometrical Journal.

BOOKS:

• Medizinische Statistik: Konzepte, Methoden, Anwendungen(to appear in May 2013, with Kaspar Rufibach and Burkhardt Seifert)
• Methoden der Statistischen Inferenz: Likelihood und Bayes(2008)
• 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: