About me:
I am Chair / Professor in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Manchester.
I am working on the following Departmental research themes: Statistics and Mathematical foundations of data science and AI.In my research I am interested in the principles of statistical learning from data and I develop corresponding probabilistic methods, models and computational tools. Many of these methods are motivated by challenges in the analysis of high-dimensional biomedical data.
I currently teach the modules Statistics 2: Likelihood and Bayes and in Multivariate Statistics and Machine Learning to about 400 mathematics and computer science students each year. In addition I supervise the short-term and long-term thesis projects of taught and research students. I am the personal academic advisor of about 30 students.
Adminstratively, I am the Head of the Statistics and Probability group consisting of about 30 academics working in Statistics, Data Science and Probability, in Actuarial and Financial Mathematics and in Epidemiology.
See also the interview with me in the "Meet our Academics" series on the Departmental Blog.
Contact:
Do you require a reference letter? Here is a guide who to ask for academic reference letters.- Email: korbinian.strimmer@manchester.ac.uk
- Mail address: Department of Mathematics, The University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
- WWW: strimmerlab.github.io
Current Administrative Roles:
- Head of the Statistics and Probability group of the Department of Mathematics (2022-present).
- Member of the Departmental leadership team (2022-present).
- Member of the Departmental academic promotions committee (2022-present).
- Panel member for academic recruitment in the area of statistics and data science (2018-present).
- Linux system administration of the Statistics group compute server minerva (2018-present).
- Academic line manager.
- Personal academic advisor of about 25 students.
Former Administrative Roles:
Are you interested in a PhD? Please read about becoming a PhD student at the Department of Mathematics.- Postgraduate research (PGR) director, Statistics and Probability group (2018-2022)
I was responsible for the following four PhD programmes: - Member of the Departmental PGR funding panel (2018-2022).
- Local coordinator and academic contact for APTS Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (2021-2022)
- Board member, Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Manchester (2018-2022)
- Probability and Statistics Group Research Director (2018-2019)
Research:
I have been selected by Clarivate / Thomson Reuters as "Highly Cited Researcher" in the field of computer science in the years 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014 taking into account publications from 2002 to 2015.
- Research overview (with links to software and data)
- Full list of publications and arXiv preprints
- Google Scholar profile and Publons profile
- Mathematics genealogy
- Current and completed doctoral students
Teaching and Learning:
Positions:
- 2018-2020 Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, London
- 2017-present Chair / Professor in Statistics, University of Manchester
- 2014-2017 Reader in Biostatistics, Imperial College London
- 2007-2014 W2 Professor (= Senior Lecturer) of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig
- 2002-2007 DFG Emmy Noether group leader (= Lecturer level) at the Department of Statistics, University of Munich
- 2000-2001 DFG Emmy Noether postdoctoral fellow, University of Oxford
- 1999 Postdoctoral researcher at Helmholtz Munich
- 1998-1999 Researcher at Siemens Corporate Technology
Education:
- 1997 Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Munich
- 1996 Visiting doctoral student, University of Cambridge
- 1994 Diplom (equiv. to M.Sc.) in Physics, University of Munich
Misc. Links:
- Useful online textbooks in probability and statistics.
- Journals of interest in statistics and bioinformatics.
- A collection of various other notes.
