Curriculum Vitae


  • since 2022 Deputy spokesperson of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik (DAGStat)
  • since 2019 Deputy spokesperson of the Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS)
  • since 2017 Member of the Executive Committee of the RTG 2300 Enrichment of European beech forests with conifers
  • since 10/2011 W3 Professor for Statistics, Georg August-Universität Göttingen
  • 2011 - 2023 Spokesperson of the interdisciplinary Centre for Statistics, Georg August-Universität Göttingen
  • 2011 - 2019 Spokesperson of RTG 1644 Scaling Problems in Statistics
  • 2018 - 2020 Dean at the Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
  • 2017 - 2018 and 2020 - 2022 Dean of Research at the Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
  • April 2016 Appointment for a W3-professorship in Statistics at the University of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (rejected)
  • 2016 - 2018 Spokesperson of Göttingen's Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG)
  • 2015 - 2018 Member of the Executive Committee of Göttingen's Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG)
  • 2012 - 2016 Member of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Modelling Society
  • Summer term 2011 Parental leave
  • April 2011 Appointment for a W3-professorship in Biostatistics at the University of Ulm (rejected)
  • Summer term 2009 - summer term 2011 W2 professor for Applied Statistics, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
  • April 2009 Appointment for a W2-professorship in Statisticsin economics and social sciences at the University of Rostock (rejected)
  • 2009 Habilitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Subject „Statistical Modelling Based on Structured Additive Regression“) with Prof. Dr. Ludwig Fahrmeir
  • Winter term 2008-2009 Substitute professor at the Chair of Statistics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Summer term 2007 Visiting professor for Applied Statistics at the University of Ulm
  • 2006 - 2009 Post-Doc at the Chair of Statistics and its Applications in Economic and Social Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2006 PhD in Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Subject „Mixed Model Based Inference in Structured Additive Regression“) with Prof. Dr. Ludwig Fahrmeir
  • 2003 – 2006 Research assistant at the Chair of Statistics and its Applications in Economic and Social Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 1998 – 2003 Diploma Course Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München