CV

Professor of Statistics and Data Science and top-10 researcher with an interdisciplinary profile and several publications in outstanding scientific journals (rated as top 6% scientists with their first publication in 2016 on ResearchGate). Supervised 20+ B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses, 7 Ph.D. dissertations (5 ongoing, 2 complete) with strong philosophy of teaching applied statistics. In my young academic career since 2016, when I did my Ph.D. in statistics, I received research grants of over 1,000,000 euros. I am also actively involved in the scientific community as associate editor of 3 journals and treasurer of the German Statistical Society.

In my main research area (topic T.6863 "Spillover Effect; Panel Study; Autoregressive Model"), I am currently ranked 4th worldwide on Scopus and 1st among UK researchers.

My group currently consists of 6 PhD students: Franz H. Harke, Mohammadreza Nasiriboroujeni, Ariane Nidelle Meli Chrisko, Elkanah Nyabuto, Mireille Fangueng

Graduated PhD students: Miryam S. Merk (2021, Dr. rer. pol.), Anna Malinovskaya (2024, Dr.-Ing.)

Visiting PhD students and Post-Docs: Paolo Maranzano (2020, 2021, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Jacopo Rodeschini (2022, University of Bergamo, Italy), Alessandro Fusta Moro (2022, University of Turin, Italy), Stefana Belbe (2023, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Caterina Morelli (2024, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy), Pierfrancesco Fermani (2024, Sapienza Università di Roma), Vivien Less (Leibniz University Hannover)

Scientific career

Since 01/07/2024:

Professor of Statistics and Data Science, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Since 01/02/2023:

Guest/Visiting Professor at the University of Bergamo, PhD course on regularised estimation methods in spatial statistics, M.Sc. course Statistics for Digital and Organisational Innovation

01/09/2023 - 30/06/2024:

Associate Professor (Reader) in Statistics and Data Analytics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

01/09/2018 - 31/08/2023:

Assistant professor of Big Geospatial Data, Institute for Cartography and Geoinformatics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

01/04/2020 - 31/03/2021:

Visiting/interim professor of Spatial Data Analysis and Statistical Learning (full professor), Faculty of Economics, University of Göttingen

01/01/2017 - 31/08/2018:

Junior research group leader "Detection and Surveillance of Spatial and Spatiotemporal Clusters", European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

01/12/2011 - 31/12/2016:

Research associate, Department of Statistics, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

Education

28/07/2021:

Positive mid-term review (equivalent to habilitation)

01/04/2012 - 16/11/2016:

Ph.D. in statistics, Department of Statistics, advisor Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schmid, European University Viadrina, summa cum laude (with distinction)

01/09/2010 - 28/02/2011:

Studies abroad, State University Saint Petersburg, Russia, study focus: international economics

01/10/2008 - 30/09/2011:

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in International Business Administration, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)

Awards

22/08/2017 - 26/08/2017:

Fellowship to attend the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Science, Novel Laureates Meeting

12/07/2017-14/07/2017:

Best Oral Presentation at "Data Science, Statistics and Visualization", Lisbon

Memberships in scientific societies, editorships, journal reviews

Associate editor:

Environmetrics, AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv

Elected member:

The Young Braunschweig Scientific Society

Treasurer and board member:

German Statistical Society

Member:

The Royal Statistical Society, German Statistical Society, The International Environmetrics Society (TIES), International Association for Statistical Computing, among others

Reviewer:

German Research Foundation, Journal of Econometrics, Environmetrics Econometrics and Statistics, Annals of Regional Science, Atmospheric Environment, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, among others

Research grants (selected)

2023 - 2025:

"Time series analysis of historical maps", collaborative project funded by the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (3 years)

2022 - 2025:

"Statistical estimation of high-dimensional, spatial dependence structures using machine learning methods", German Research Foundation (3 years)

2022 - 2023:

"AgrImOnIA: Agricultural impact on Italian air quality", joint project with the Universities of Bergamo, Milan-Bicocca, Turin, and Hannover (1.5 years)

2018 - 2022:

"Spatial and spatiotemporal GARCH models", German Research Foundation (3 years)

2017 - 2018:

Junior research group "Detection and Surveillance of Spatial and Spatiotemporal Clusters", Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION (2 years)