Biography

My name is Juliane Manitz and I am a interdisciplinary statistican. For the last seven years I have been working in cancer research at EMD Serono/Merck KGaA, USA. My previous academic research focused on statistical analysis of network data as well as interdisciplinary statistical consulting.

Research & Professional Experience

2022 - 2024 Associate Director Biostatistics: Oncology, EMD Serono/Merck KGaA, Billerica, MA, USA.
2019 - 2022 Principal Biostatistician: Oncology, EMD Serono/Merck KGaA, Billerica, MA, USA.
2017 - 2019 Senior Biostatistician: Oncology, EMD Serono/Merck KGaA, 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 & Awards

2024 Climatebase fellowship for climate career acceleration through an industry-oriented educational program. Partial financial aid award.
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.

Further Activities

Since 2019 Climate activist with Extinction Rebellion, Boston, USA
2016-2017 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 Coordination of German-Cypriot Youth Exchange Program. link
2006–2010 Student council at the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.