Current group members:
- Prof. Korbinian Strimmer - Chair in Statistics
- Yuxiong Gao (2023-) - PhD student / secondary supervisor, with Dr. Wentao Li (main)
- Undergraduate and postgraduate taught students (BSc, MMath and MSc) working with me as their thesis supervisor (about 6-8 each year)
In addition to supervising students I am a personal academic advisor (about 30 students).
Past group members:
Completed doctoral students (co-supervisor):
- Dr. Alex Koch (2019-2023, University of Manchester), with Prof. Andrew Loudon (main) and Prof. Thomas House.
Ph.D. thesis: Modelling the circadian clock.
Completed doctoral students (primary supervisor):
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Ioanna Nikolopoulou (2019-2024, University of Manchester)
Ph.D. thesis: Investigation of statistical learning using normalising flows (pending minor corrections) -
Dr. Takoua Jendoubi (2014-2019, Imperial College London) -
now at University College London.
Ph.D. thesis: Statistical approaches for metabolomics and omics data integration. -
Dr. Sebastian Gibb (2010-2014, University of Leipzig) - now at University Medicine Greifswald.
M.D. thesis: Development of a flexible bioinformatics platform for analyzing mass spectrometry data (in German). - Dr. Bernd Klaus (2009-2013, University of Leipzig) - now at Häfele, Nagold.
Ph.D. thesis: False discovery rates, higher criticism and related methods in high dimensional multiple testing. - Dr. Verena Zuber (2008-2012, University of Leipzig) - now at Imperial College London.
Ph.D. thesis: A multivariate framework for variable selection and identification of biomarkers in high-dimensional omics data. - Dr. Rainer Opgen-Rhein (2004-2007, University of Munich) - now at Simon Kucher and Partners, Munich.
Ph.D. thesis: Aspects of statistical learning in complex systems. - Dr. Juliane Schäfer (2002-2006, University of Munich) - now at F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel.
Ph.D. thesis: Small-sample analysis and inference of networked dependency structures from complex genomic data. - Prof. Anne-Laure Boulesteix (2002-2005, University of Munich) - now at University of Munich.
Ph.D. thesis: Dimension reduction and classification with high-dimensional microarray data.
Former group members (now academics):
- Dr. Takoua Jendoubi (PhD student 2014-2019), now lecturer at University College London.
- Dr. Verena Zuber (PhD student 2008-2012), now lecturer at Imperial College London.
- Dr. Marco Scutari (visiting graduate student autumns 2009 and 2010), now tenured senior researcher at The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA.
- Prof. Nicole Radde (postdoc 2007-2008), now at University of Stuttgart.
- Prof. Jean Hausser (visiting M.Sc. student summer 2006, University of Lyon), now assistant professor at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab, Stockholm.
- Prof. Susana Eyheramendy (postdoc 2005-2006), now at UAI in Santiago.
- Prof. Anne-Laure Boulesteix (PhD student 2002-2005), now at LMU Munich.
Group members that were fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation:
- Prof. Carsten Wiuf (visiting professor 2010, University of Aarhus) - press info, now at University of Copenhagen.
- Dr. Miika Ahdesmäki (postdoc 2008-2009, Technical University of Tampere), now at Cambridge Epigenetix.
