In April 2024, I started as Junior Professor (with Tenure Track) at the Department of Statistics at TU Dortmund, and as Head of the new Junior Research Group Biostatistical Methods for Environmental Medicine at the Leibniz Research Institute for  Environmental Medicine (IUF) in Düsseldorf, Germany. 

Previously, I had been Interim Professor of Computational Statistics at RWTH Aachen University for the winter semester 2023/24. Additionally, I had been a PostDoc in the group Statistical Methods in Epidemiology of Prof. Andreas Mayr at IMBIE, University of Bonn. See also my CV.

I am an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics). 

As a statistician with a mathematical background, I work at the intersection of Statistics, Computing and Biomedical Applications. My research particularly focuses on Statistical Learning and Regression Modelling for high-dimensional and complex biomedical data. 

• High-dimensional Statistics: Variable selection; Regularization; Bayesian methods

• Computational Methods: Stochastic search; Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Boosting

• Biomedical Applications: Polygenic risk scores in genetic epidemiology; COVID-19 modelling; Various applications in perinatal epidemiology, oncology, anesthesia, psychiatry and neuropsychology

For links to papers and talks see Research. The full list of publications is on Google Scholar. 

For information on current courses see Teaching.