Spokespersons

• Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib (spokesman)
• Prof. Dr. Heike Bickeböller (deputy spokeswoman)

Executive committee

• Prof. Dr. Heike Bickeböller (acting substitute: Prof. Dr. Tim Friede)
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib (acting substitute: Prof. Dr. Helmut Herwartz)
• Prof. Dr. Karin Kurz (acting substitute: Prof. Dr. Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel)
• Prof. Dr. Marcus Baum (acting substitute: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Wiegand)

Research staff:

• Dr. Johannes Signer (acting substitute: Dr. Alexander Silbersdorff)

Students:

• Lea Dammann

Members

• Christian Ammer (Faculty of Forest Sciences, Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones) Research focus: Regeneration ecology, adaptation of forests to Climate Change, forest management and biodiversity
• Niko Balkenhol (Faculty of Forest Sciences, Department of Wildlife Sciences) Research focus: Spatial wildlife ecology; landscape genetics; movement ecology; eco-evolutionary population dynamics
• Marcus Baum (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Data Fusion Group, Institute of Computer Science) Research focus: Sensor data fusion and processing; multi-object tracking; environment perception
• Tim Beißbarth (University Medical Centre, Department of Medical Statistics) Research focus: Biostatistics, Bioinformatics; Analysis of high-dimensional data; Graphical Models; Systems Biology
• Tino Berger (Faculty of Business and Economics, Chair of Empirical International Economics) Research focus: Empirical Macroeconomics; Time Series Econometrics; Bayesian Econometrics
• Heike Bickeböller (University Medical Centre, Department of Genetic Epidemiology) Research focus: Statistical Genetics; Epidemiology; Clinical projects
• Margarete Boos (Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology) Research focus: Small Group Research; Computer-mediated Communication; Interaction Process Analysis Methods
• Yasemin Boztug (Faculty of Business and Economics) Research focus: Marketing; Consumer Behaviour
• Bernhard Brümmer (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development) Research focus: Market integration over space and time; Empirical methods in world agricultural trade analysis; Productivity and efficiency measurement using stochastic frontier analysis
• Marife D. Corre (Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology - Soil Science of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems) Research focus: Impact of global change processes; Ecosystem functions of agroforestry systems; Landscape-scale assessment of crop yield & quantification of soil carbon changes and greenhouse gas fluxes from conversion of tropical to agricultural production systems; Soil productivity recovery of degraded lands in the tropics; Applications of stable isotopes for quantifying carbon and nitrogen fluxes
• Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development) Research focus: Economic time series; Price transmission and market integration; Spatial analysis
• Ossama Elshiewy (Faculty of Business and Economics) Research focus: Discrete Choice Modeling; Marketing-Mix Models for FMCG; Hierarchical Bayes and Consumer Heterogeneity; Food Marketing
• Tim Friede (University Medical Centre, Department of Medical Statistics) Research focus: Clinical Biostatistics including designs for clinical trials; Systematic reviews / meta-analyses
• Xiaoming Fu (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Computer Networks Group, Institute of Computer Science) Research focus: Internet technologies, mobile computing, cloud computing, smart cities, social networks, spatio-temporal data analysis
• Helmut Herwartz (Faculty of Business and Economics, Chairs of Statistics and Econometrics) Research focus: Stochastic volatility models; Resampling procedures; Panel error correction models; State space models
• Reinhard Hilgers (University Medical Centre, Department of Medical Statistics) Research focus: Design, Quality management and analysis of clinical trials; Multicentre trials
• Krisztina Kis-Katos (Faculty of Business and Economics, Chair of International Political Economy) Research focus: Effects of globalization, institutions and conflict on socio-economic outcomes
• Christoph Kleinn (Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Department of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing) Research focus: Forest assessment; Remote sensing
• Thomas Kneib (Faculty of Business and Economics, Chairs of Statistics and Econometrics) Research focus: Semiparametric regression; Quantile and expectile regression; Bayesian regularisation priors; Boosting; Spatial statistics; Multi-state-models
• Alexander Knohl (Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Department of Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing) Research focus: Biosphere-atmosphere interaction; Carbon and water cycle in terrestrial ecosystems; Stable isotope ecology and ecophysiology; Micrometeorology and eddy covariance measurements; Process-based land surface modeling
• Olaf Korn (Faculty of Business and Economics, Chair of Finance) Research focus: Risk management; Empirical capital market research
• Holger Kreft (Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology, and Biogeography) Research focus: Biodiversity, Macroecology, and Biogeography
• Steffen M. Kühnel (Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Science Methodology) Research focus: Linear structural equation models; Multivariate models for social science data; Survey techniques
• Karin Kurz (Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology) Research focus: Sozialstrukturanalyse; Lebensverlaufsforschung und soziale Ungleichheitsforschung; Bildungssoziologie, Arbeitsmarktsoziologie, Familiensoziologie; Statistik und Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung; Social stratification Research; Life course Research; Educational, labour market and family sociology; Statistics and research methods
• Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (Faculty of Business and Economics, Chair of Development Economics) Research focus: International Trade; Environmental Economics; Development Economics; Applied Econometrics
• Uwe Mattler (Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology) Research focus: Visual perception; Expecancy effects; Experimental methods
• Ralf Mayrhofer (Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology) Research focus: Bayesian models of human cognition; Causality and abstraction; Experimental methods
• Burkhard Morgenstern (Department of Bioinformatics) Research focus: Algorithms for nucleic acid; Protein sequence analysis; Multiple sequence alignment and gene prediction
• Axel Munk (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics) Research focus: Medical statistics; Nonparametric modelling; Pattern recognition
• Oliver Mußhoff (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development) Research focus: Risk management; Investment and financing; Optimization techniques; Business administration of sustainable agrosystems; Climate change and agriculture; Moral hazard and food risks
• Monika Oberle (Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science) Research focus: Systematic empirical exploration of different factors in teaching and learning processes in civic education
• Albert Rosenberger (University Medical Centre, Department of Genetic Epidemiology) Research focus: Genetic Epidemiology; Statistical modelling of observational studies an the interpretation of results; Quality management and analysis of epidemiological data
• Armin Schmitt (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Animal Sciences) Research focus: Novel sequencing techniques in the agricultural sciences; times series analysis; bioinformatics; breeding informatics
• Johannes Signer (Faculty of Forest Sciences, Department of Wildlife Sciences) Research focus: Movement Ecology, Habitat Selection of Animals, Animal Population Estimation, Analysis of Telemetry Data
• Alexander Silbersdorff (Faculty of Business and Economics, Chairs of Statistics and Econometrics) Research focus: Income inequality. Inequalities related to labour market outcomes using distributional regression
• Caroline Sporleder (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science) Research focus: natural language processing; semi- or weakly supervised machine learning for text analysis; multi-modal models for text and image; computational modelling of semantics and discourse
• Tobias C. Stubbe (Faculty of Social Sciences) Research focus: Empirical Educational Research with a Focus on Large-Scale-Assessments and Social Disparities
• Céline Teney (Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology) Research focus: Political Sociology; Sociology of Globalisation; Sociology of Europe; Sociology of Migration; Methods of Empirical Social Research
• Steffen Unkel (University Medical Centre, Department of Medical Statistics) Research focus: Multivariate methods; Statistical learning; Survival analysis
• Sebastian Vollmer (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Chair of Development Economics) Research focus: Development economics; Global health and long-run development
• Michael Waldmann (Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology) Research focus: Causality; Experimental methods; Cognitive psychology
• Catrin Westphal (Faculy of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Department of Functional Agrobiodiversity) Research focus: agrobiodiversity, ecosystem functions and services in agricultural systems, pollination and biological pest control, ecological intensification, landscape ecology
• Kerstin Wiegand (Faculy of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Department of Ecosystem Modeling) Research focus: Spatial Statistics; Ecological modelling
• Ariane Willems (Faculy of Social Sciences) Research focus: Quality and Impact of All-Day Schools; Teaching Quality; Social Inequality; Measurement of Situational and Individual Interest
• Xiaohua Yu (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development) Research focus: Agricultural Economics; Environmental Economics; Applied Econometrics; Chinese Economy
• Delphine Clara Zemp (Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology - Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography) Research focus: Biodiversity-ecosystem Functioning; Tropical Forests; Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Surveys; Statistical Modeling; Complex Networks