CV

Passionate statistician and professor of big geospatial data with an interdisciplinary research profile and several publications in outstanding scientific journals (rated as top 8% scientists with their first publication in 2016 on ResearchGate). Supervised 20+ B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses, 7 Ph.D. dissertations (6 ongoing, 1 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.10087 "Maximum Likelihood Method, Panel Data Model, Spatial Econometrics"), I am currently ranked 23rd worldwide on Scopus and 1st among German researchers.

Scientific career

Since 01/09/2018:

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

My group currently consists of 6 PhD students: Anna Malinovskaya, Franz H. Harke, Qendrim Shaboviq, Mohammadreza Nasiriboroujeni, Ariane Nidelle Meli Chrisko, Elkanah Nyabuto

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:

Junge Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft

Treasurer and board member:

German Statistical Society

Member:

ASA, German Statistical Society, The International Environmetrics Society, 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)