Supervision of PhD Students

  • Jinbo Hao: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Vera Stein: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Alejandro Pereira: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Matthias Herp: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Michael Schlee: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Marcel Arpogaus: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Jonathan Henrich: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Johannes Brachem: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Isea Cieply: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Gianmarco Callegher: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Tabea Hüllen: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Jens Lichter: tba. (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Anton Thielmann: Interpretable Probabilistic Machine Learning - On Topic Modeling and Tabular Deep Learning (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Gillian Kant: Social Media Insights through Advanced Natural Language Processing-Based Machine Learning (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • René-Marcel Kruse: Estimating and Evaluating Mixed and Semiparametric Models with Statistical and Deep Learning Methods (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Hannes Riebl: Semi-Parametric Distributional Regression in Forestry and Ecology: Software, Models and Applications (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Rouven Schmidt: Epistomes of Stochastic Frontier Analysis (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Anne Berner: Efficiency First? Multilevel Analyses of Rebound Effects, Economic Growth, and Energy Use (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Franziska Dorn: It's Time: Poverty, Inequality and Sustainability beyond the Mean (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Stanislaus Stadlmann: The Visualization, Unbiased Estimation and Interpretation of Distributional Regression Models (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Isa Marques: Recent Advances in Continuous Space Spatial Statistics: From Non-stationarity to Spatial Confounding (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Manuel Carlan: Bayesian Distributional Regression: From Effect Selection Priors in Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape to Bayesian ConditionalTransformation Models (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Paul Wiemann: Extending the Bayesian STAR: Studies on smooth functional subspace shrinkage, link-functions, and non-random sample selection in Bayesian structured additive regression (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Jan Schlüter: Digitalisierung im Personenverkehr (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Maike Hohberg: Advances in Regression Beyond the Mean with Applications to Poverty and Health (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Peter Pütz: Causality, Prediction, and Replicability in Applied Statistics: Advanced Models and Practices (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Patrick Michaelis: Distributional Regression for Skew, Mixed Discrete-Continuous and Multinomial Responses (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Elmar Spiegel: Semiparametric Regression with Fewer Distributional Assumptions: Expectile Regression and Generalized Additive Models with Flexible Response Functions (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Hauke Thaden: Effect Separation in Regression Models with Multiple Scales (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Jan Henning Höffler: Replication in Quantitative Empirical Economics (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Alexander Sohn: The Regression of an Equitable Market Economy - Analysing Inequality in Germany from the Bottom Up Using Structured Additive Distributional Regression (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Nadja Klein: Bayesian Structured Additive Distributional Regression (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Benjamin Säfken: Model Choice and Variable Selection in Mixed and Semiparametric Models (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Holger Reulen: Modelling Combined Transition-Type Effects in Multi-State Models (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Juliane Manitz: Statistical Inference for Propagation Processes on Complex Networks (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Elisabeth Waldmann: Bayesian Structured Additive Quantile Regression (Georg-August-University Göttingen)
  • Fabian Sobotka: Semiparametric Expectile Regression (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
  • Susanne Konrath: Bayesian Regularisation in Regression Models for Survival Data (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, jointly with Ludwig Fahrmeir)
  • Fabian Scheipl: Bayesian Regularization and Model Choice in Structured Additive Regression (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, jointly with Ludwig Fahrmeir)

Membership in PhD Committees (Thesis Advisory or Examination Committees)

  • Etienne Morice: Fast inference in flexible high dimensional models of gene co-expression and genotype-gene expression interaction (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Johannes Söding)
  • Malte Becker: Essays on inequality and discrimination in developing countries (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Krisztina Kis-Katos)
  • Stefan Schrod: Novel machine learning solutions for precision medicine - from causal inference to cellular perturbations and interactions (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Matthias Altenbuchinger)
  • Florian Berens: How students' disciplinary attitudes and beliefs affect learning in introductory statistics courses (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Steffen Kühnel)
  • Sandra Siegfried: Statistical Models and Software for Applications in Transformation Inference (Universität Zürich, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn)
  • Philipp Aschersleben: Accommodating Price Dynamics in Semiparametric Sales Models (Tu Clausthal, Supervisor: Winfried J. Steiner)
  • Utz Pape: Well-Being and Shocks: Challenges in Poverty Measurement and Analysis (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Sebastian Vollmer)
  • Shu Wang: Essays on Selected Modern Approaches to Causal Inference in Structural Vector Autoregressions (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Helmut Herwartz)
  • Bernadette Wendel: Genome-wide association studies and follow-up kernel approaches in the longitudinal PsyCourse Study (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Heike Bickeböller)
  • Boyao Zhang: Extending the Boosting Framework based on Bayesian Methodology (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Elisabeth Bergherr)
  • Juan Armando Torres Munguia: Essays on structured additive regression models with applications in development economics (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso)
  • Markus Fülle: Untangling Periods of Tail-Dependence Across Financial Time Series by Means of Regime Switching GARCH Models with Rotated, Copula-Distributed Innovations (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Helmut Herwartz)
  • Christian Ochsner: Macroeconomic and Financial Analyses in Data-Rich Environments (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Tino Berger)
  • Dominic Loske: Data-driven management of digital retail supply chains: Considering workforce heterogeneity for improved decision-making (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Matthias Klumpp)
  • Raphael Brade: Behavioral Interventions and Students’ Success at University Evidence from Randomized Field Experiments (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Robert Schwager)
  • Alexander Lange: Essays on Implementation, Assessment and Application of Structural Vector Autoregressive Models (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Helmut Herwartz)
  • Johannes Sauer: Kronenstruktur und -dynamik von Rein- und Mischbeständen aus Buche, Fichte und Douglasie (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Jürgen Nagel)
  • Burak Günhan: Bayesian Methods for Borrowing Information in Clinical Drug Development (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Tim Friede)
  • Summaira Yasmeen: Association Analysis Using Set-Based Approaches in the Post-GWAS Era (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Heike Bickeböller)
  • Thomas Asendorf: Blinded Sample Size Re-estimation for Longitudinal Overdispersed Count Data in Randomized Clinical Trials with an Application in Multiple Sclerosis (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Tim Friede)
  • Elaheh Vojgani: Accounting for Epistasis in Genomic Phenotype Prediction (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Henner Simianer)
  • Burak Kürşad Günhan: Bayesian Methods for Borrowing Information in Clinical Drug Development (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Tim Friede)
  • Timo Adam: On Some Flexible Extensions of Hidden Markov Models (University of Bielefeld, Supervisor: Roland Langrock)
  • Muriel Lynnea Buri: Statistical Models Tailored to Ordinal Outcomes in Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials (University of Zurich, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn)
  • Ramón Trucíos-Caciano: Quantifying the uncertainty caused by sampling, modeling, and field measurements in the estimation of AGB with information of the national forest inventory in Durango, Mexico (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Christoph Kleinn)
  • Maximilian Hesselbarth: Analysing and modelling spatial patterns to infer the influence of environmental heterogeneity using point pattern analysis, individual-based simulation modelling and landscape metrics (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Kerstin Wiegand)
  • Rouven Haschka: Unravelling Spatial Patterns in Efficiency Frontiers with an Extension to Endogeneity-Robust Modelling Using Copulas (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Helmut Herwartz)
  • Linda Steinhübel: Urbanization, Agricultural Intensification, and Environmental Services: A Spatial Analysis (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Bernhard Brümmer)
  • Maike Tahden: Identifying Relevant Predictor Variables in Medical Research: Different Statistical Approaches (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Supervisor: Hans Colonius)
  • Zhengao Li: Integrating Omics Data into Genomic Prediction (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Henner Simianer)
  • Collins Byobona Kukunda: Scale Challenges in Inventory of Forests Aided by Remote Sensing (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Christoph Kleinn)
  • José Luis Espinoza Delgado: Essays on Multidimensional Poverty Measurement: Moving from the Household to the Individual, with Evidence from Nicaragua and Central American Countries (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Cara Luisa Ebert: Child Development and Human Capital Formation - Evidence from Randomized Interventions and Gender Inequality (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Sebastian Vollmer)
  • Maren Ulm: An Empirical Study on the Measurement and the Determinants of Macroeconomic Uncertainty (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Helmut Herwartz)
  • Kaja Bonesmo Fredriksen: Economic Effects of Occupational Regulation (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Kilian Bizer)
  • Simone Schotte: Poverty, Social Mobility and the Middle Class - The Case of South Africa (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Jann Lay)
  • Katharina Schley: The Provision of Medical Services, Regional Diversity and Population Well-Being: A Health Frontier Approach (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Helmut Herwartz)
  • Tobias Mütze: Adaptive designs for clinical trials in cardiovascular diseases (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Tim Friede)
  • Hendrik Kruse: Essays on International Trade & Development (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Holger Strulik)
  • Christian Bommer: Essays in Health and Development (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Sebastian Vollmer)
  • Jana Kuhnt: Essays in Empirical Development Economics - Evaluating and Designing Health Interventions (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Sebastian Vollmer)
  • Evgenia Pavlova: Price Discovery Measures in Agricultural Economics (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan von Cramon)
  • Katharina van Treeck: The Role of Labor in Sustainable Development (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Johannes Martini: Incorporating Interactions and Gene Annotation Data in Genomic Prediction (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Henner Simianer)
  • Meike Köhler: Flexible Bayesian joint models for longitudinal biomarkers and time-to-event outcomes with applications to type 1 diabetes research (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Sonja Greven)
  • Jona Cederbaum: Functional Linear Mixed Models for Complex Correlation Structures and General Sampling Grids (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Sonja Greven)
  • Kai Husmann: Development, evaluation and application of inference-based decision support methods to meet the rising wood demands of the growing bio-economy sector (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Jürgen Nagel)
  • Stefanie Friedrichs: Kernel-Based Pathway Approaches for Testing and Selection (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Heike Bickeböller)
  • Simone Maxand: Dependence in macroeconomic variables: Assessing instantaneous and persistent relations between and within time series (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Helmut Herwartz)
  • Sebastian Schoneberg: Ein klimasensitives, autoregressives Modell zur Beschreibung der Einzelbaum-Mortalität (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Joachim Saborowski)
  • Kristy Pamela Robledo: Statistical Algorithms for Semi-Parametric Variance Regression with Applications to Biomarkers (Macquarie University, Supervisor: Ian Marschner)
  • Robert William Rankin: Hierarchical Models and Shrinkage Estimators in Capture-Recapture Studies of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Murdoch University Western Australia, Supervisor Lars Bejder)
  • Malte Ehrich: Essays on Effects of Policy Interventions in the Realm of Food Standards, Trade, and the German Labour Market (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Bernhard Brümmer)
  • Tukae Mbegalo: Essays in food price, land policy reforms, livestock ownership and solar adoption in rural Tanzania (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Ioannis Skevas: A Bayesian Approach to Dynamic Efficiency and Productivity Measurement (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Bernhard Brümmer)
  • Paul Schmidt: Bayesian Inference for Structured Additive Regression Models for Lagre-Scale Problems with Applications to Medical Imaging (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Volker Schmid)
  • Nadège Jacot: Measures of Model Adequacy and Model Selection in Mixed Effects Models (University of Geneva, Supervisor: Eva Cantoni)
  • Said Tifaoui: The Influence of Scale on the Measurement of the Vertical Price Transmission (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel)
  • Ngoc-Thuy Ha: Lost ion Translation - Genetic, Transcriptomic and Breeding Aspects of Metabolic Robustness in Dairy Cows (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Henner Simianer)
  • Jan Christian Schinke: Telling Stories of Solving Problems? The 20-20-20 Package and the Efficiency of EU Climate Change Policies (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Robert Schwager)
  • Rajius Idzalika: Essays in Development Economics: Democracy and Education (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso)
  • Caroline Dotter: Essays on Poverty Measurement and Trade (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Dimitrios Minos: "I'm just well nourished" - A study on Overweight and Obesity in Developing Countries (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Simon Lange: Essays in Empirical Economics (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Junaid Ahmed: Do migrant remittances matter? Nature, determinants and impacts of remittances to Pakistan (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Daniel Castro Medina: Scale problems in productivity analysis in agriculture over space and time (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Bernhard Brümmer)
  • Lisa Möst: Conditional Transformation Models - Interpretable Parameterisations and Censoring (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn)
  • Linda Schulze Waltrup: Extensions of Semiparametric Expectile Regression (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Göran Kauermann)
  • Margret-Ruth Oelker: Penalized Regression for Discrete Structures (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Gerhard Tutz)
  • Syamsul Hidayat Pasaribu: A Contribution to the Empirics of Labour and Development Economics: Regional and Individual Unemployment Persistence, Cash Transfer Program and International Poverty Line (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Urs Kormann: Scale and context mediated conservation management in fragmented landscapes and populations (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Teja Tscharntke)
  • Moises Neil Serino: (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Stephan Klasen)
  • Ruwan Punchi Manage: Identifying Spatial Patterns of Tropical Rain Forest in Sri Lanka (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Kerstin Wiegand)
  • Philip Mundhenk: Integrating remotely sensed data into forest resource inventories: the impact of model and variable selection on estimates of precision (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Christoph Kleinn)
  • Viola Obermeier: Flexible Distributed Lag Models and their Application to Geophysical Data (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Helmut Küchenhoff)
  • Florian Johansen: Trade and Uncertainty (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso)
  • Saskia Freytag: Kernel Methods for Genes and Networks to Study Genom-Wide Associations of Lung Cancer and Rheumatoid Arthritis (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Heike Bickeböller)
  • Christine Caroline Jähnig: Die Messung betriebswirtschaftlichen Wissens von Studierenden - Eine quantitativ-empirische Untersuchung situativer Testaufgaben (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Susan Seeber)
  • Katharina Amann: Einsatz des Kalman Filters in der operativen Produktionsplanung (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Jutta Geldermann)
  • Stefan Meyer: Estimation of the Long Run Food Price Equilibrium in Germany, the U.S. and Europe (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor: Xiaohua Yu)
  • Nikolay Robinzonov: Advances in Boosting of Temporal and Spatial Models (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Torsten Hothorn)
  • Stefanie Kalus: Biostatistical Modelling and Analysis of Combined fMRI and EEG Measurements (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor: Ludwig Fahrmeir)
  • Nicole Grunewald: Growth, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate and Wellbeing (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor Stephan Klasen)
  • Daniel Adler: Dynamic Language Bindings for C Libraries with Emphasis on their Application to R (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor Walter Zucchini)
  • Manuel Wiesenfarth: Estimation and Inference in Special Nonparametric Models with Applications to Topics in Development Economics (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor Tatyana Krivobokova)
  • Max Köhler: Econometric Studies on Flexible Modeling of Developing Countries in Growth Analysis (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor Stefan Sperlich)
  • Carsten Hundertmark: Ökonometrische Verfahren zur Messung von Segregation und Lohndiskriminierung - eine theoretische und empirische Studie (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor Stefan Sperlich)
  • Katja Landau: Messung der Vulnerabilität der Armut (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor Walter Zucchini)
  • Ren Ohinata: Three Essays on Application of Semiparametric Regression: Partially Linear Mixed Effects Model and Index Model (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor Stefan Sperlich)
  • Yesilda Balavarca: Assessing Prediction Error of Genetic Variants in Cox Regression Models (Georg-August-University Göttingen, Supervisor Heike Bickeböller)
  • Jörg Phillips: Pricing and Hedging of Unit-Linked Life Insurance Products(Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Supervisor Angelika May)
  • Anja Schindler: Bandwidth Selection in Nonparametric Kernel Estimation (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Supervisor Stefan Sperlich)
  • Mirko Bendig: Empirical Analysis of Microfinancial Participation Patterns - The Cases of Ghana and Sri Lanka (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Supervisor Stephan Klasen)
  • Lena Reh: Measuring Multivariate Dependence - an Analytical Approach with Copulas (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Supervisor Angelika May)
  • Andreas Groll: Variable selection by regularization methods for generalized mixed models (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor Gerhard Tutz)
  • Danaé Bouille: Risk Measurement in Portfolios with Commodities (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Supervisor Angelika May)
  • Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Supervisor Gerda Claeskens)
  • Benjamin Hofner: Boosting structured additive regression models (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor Torsten Hothorn)
  • Nora Fenske: Structured additive quantile regression with applications to modeling malnutrition and obesity of children (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Supervisor Ludwig Fahrmeir)
  • Thomas Mestekemper: Functional Models for Temporally Structured Data (University of Bielefeld, Supervisor Göran Kauermann)
  • María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez: Flexible ROC Regression (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Supervisor Carmen Cadarso-Suarez)
  • Christina Schäfer: Applying Nonlinear Regression Models and Least Trimmed Squares for the Optimisation of Steel Wheels (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Supervisor Christine Müller)