Professional experience

• Professor for Mathematics in Biology and Medicine (Furtwangen University)
• Statistical and Mathematical Consultant (freelancer)
• Leading Biometrician (Paul-Martini-Clinical Sepsis Research Unit, Jena University Hospital)
• Researcher (Chair for Stochastics, University of Bayreuth)
• Professor for Mathematical Statistics (interim professor, University of Bayreuth)
• Head of Biostatistics (SIRS-Lab GmbH, Jena)
• Scientific Assistant (Chair for Mathematical Statistics, University of Bayreuth)

Current Projects

• Robust Risk Estimation
• distr: R packages for probability distributions
• RobASt: R packages for robust statistical procedures
• qPCR: Bioconductor packages for quantitative real-time PCR data
• RFLPtools: Tools to analyze RFLP data

Research interests

• Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
• Biomarker development and validation
• Molecular diagnostics
• Robust Statistics
• Computational Statistics (R software)
• Statistical/Machine Learning
• Data Mining

Memberships

• Foundation for Open Access Statistics
• German Mathematical Society (DMV) – Department Stochastics
• The R Foundation for Statistical Computing