Short Biography

Research Experience

Since 2017 Senior Biostatistician: Oncology, EMD Serono, Billerica, MA, USA.
2016 PostDoc: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
2015 PostDoc: Research Training Group 1644 ’Scaling Problems in Statistics’, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
2010-2015 Research Assistent: Research Training Group 1644 ’Scaling Problems in Statistics’, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
2014 Research stays at University of Auckland and University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
2014, 2015 Research stays at The Walther and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia.
2011, 2012 Research stays at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
2008-2010 Student assistant at Statistical Consulting Unit (StaBLab), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
2008 Internship at Robert-Koch Institute, Berlin Germany.

Funding and Awards

2016 Feodor Lynen research fellowship for post-doctoral researchers funded by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.
2016-2017 Associated member of the research project 'Knowledge-based radiotherapy treatment planning' funded by the Auckland Medical Research Foundation
2015-2017 Associated member of the research project ‘Model-based Source Tracing of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks’ (MOST) funded by RIVM Strategic Programme (SPR), Dutch public health department.
2014 Fully financed research exchange Optimization and its Applications in Learning and Industry (OptALI) funding by European Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme and New Zealand Government.
2011 Early career award at the Conference on Inference For Epidemic-related Risk (InFER 2011), Warwick, UK.
2010-2014 Doctoral position and start-up funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) research training group ‘Scaling Problems in Statistics’ (RTG 1644).

Education

2014 PhD: Research Training Group 1644 ’Scaling Problems in Statistics’, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS, Dr. rer. nat.)
2010 Diploma: Statistics, Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Specialization in Biostatistics; minor subject Politics

Academic Services & Voluntary Activities

Memberships American Statistical Association, Statistical Modelling Society, Computational and Methodological Statistics, Foundation for Open Access Statistics and Statistics without Borders.
Reviewer Journal of the Royal Society Interface, PLOS ONE, and PLOS Currents Outbreaks.
2016 Voluntary Adult Basic Education (ABE) Tutoring at United South End Settlements, Boston, USA
2013-2015 Appointed first aider for Chairs of Statistics and Econometrics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany.
2014 Conference organizing committee: 29th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling 2014, Göttingen, Germany.
2011-2014 Voluntary coordination of German-Cypriot Youth Exchange Program. link
2006–2010 Student council at the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.