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. |