Our research group is interested in the development of methods  for extracting relevant information from complex data.  This data  often arise from collaborations with lab scientists.  My research in mathematical statistics  is concerned with developing such methods and tools to  equip these with statistical error control.  The challenge is to incorporate computational aspects at the same hand, an important issue in modern data science.

• Mathematical Statistics
  

Statistical inverse problems, nonparametric regression, statistical imaging and signal recovery, multiscale testing and estimation,  qualitative inference,  shape analysis, optimal transport.

• Computational Statistics
  

  fast segmentation algorithms, motion estimation, resampling

• Statistics in Biophysics
  

Statistical methods for single molecule experiments, ion channel recordings, nanoscale fluorescence microscopy. My work on  Nanostatistics has been highlighted in the Research Features Magazine.

• Other areas of application I have been involved include
  

   Clinical trials:  Bioequivalence and noninferiority trials.
   Econometrics: microstructure noise models.
   Pattern recognition: Analysis of fingerprints and biometric identification security.

In the recently founded Felix-Bernstein Institute for Mathematical Statistics in the Biosciences (FBMS)
we foster interaction of Statistics with Bio- and Lifescience.

Since 2010  I am Max-Planck-fellow heading the Statistical Inverse Problems in Biophysics group at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

publications

Software

1967	year of birth
10/92	Diplom in Mathematics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
10/1994	Dr. rer. nat., Georg-August Universität Göttingen
1995	DFG Research Fellowship:TU Dresden, Cornell, The Wharton School, Philadelphia
1996-2000	wiss. Assistent, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1999	Habilitation, Fakultät für Mathematik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2000	Professor for Statistics, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft, Universiät GH Siegen
2001	Professor for Applied Mathematics, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität GH Paderborn
2002-2008	Chair for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
2009 -	Felix-Bernstein Chair for Mathematical Statistics
2010 -	Max-Planck Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

IMS Medaillon lecture 2021 "Empirical optimal transport: Inference, Algorithms, Applicaions."

Current:

• Cluster of Excellence: 'MBExC: Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells', (executive board member)
• DFG Research Training Network 2088 'Discovering Structure in Complex Data', subprojects A1,A5,B2
• DFG Collaborative Research Center 1456 'The Mathematics of Experiment', subprojects A4,C6 (vice speaker)

• DFG Research Unit 5381: "Mathematical Statistics in the Information Age – Statistical Efficiency and Computational Tractability"

Former:
 

• DFG Collaborative Research Center 803 'Functionality Controlled by Organization in and Between Membranes', central project Z2
• DFG Collaborative Research Center 755 'Nanoscale Photonic Imaging', subprojects A4,A6,A7 (executive board member)
• DFG-SNF Research Unit 916 'Statistical Regularisation', subprojects B1,B3,Z (coordinator)
• DFG Research Training Network 1023 'Identification in Mathematical Models', subprojects A1,A3. (vice speaker)
• BMBF Verbundprojekt 'INVERS: Health and Medical Technology', subproject 03MUPAH6)
• Courant Center of Excellence 'Poverty, Equity, and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries' (executive board member)
• DFG grant Mu 1230 /10-1: 'Geodesic Principal Component Analysis in Shape Analysis' (coordinator)

 

Member

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
Bernoulli Society
American Statistical Association (ASA)
Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV)

Elected member

ERC (2008-2012) of the Bernoulli Society
Elected member of the The International Statistical Institute (ISI)
Elected member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Elected member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Member of the Council of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A. (2017-2020)
Member and Chairman of the International Review Panel of Independet Research Fund Denmark, Natural Sciences (2016-2019)

Associate Editor of

Annals of Statistics (2009 -2012, 2016-  )
Bernoulli (2012 -- )
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (2013 - 2016)
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (2008 - 2016 )
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (2012 - 2016)
Metrika (2008 - 2012)
Statistics & Risk Modeling (2008 - 2014)
Electronic Journal of Statistics (2016 - )