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Professor of Statistics and Data Science and top-10 researcher with an interdisciplinary profile and several publications in outstanding scientific journals (rated as top 5% 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 + 2024/25, 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), Lixue Sun (2025, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China), Atika Aouri (2025, University of Mila, Algeria).

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)