PD Dr. Steffen Unkel
Senior Research Associate, Group Statistical Methods for Clinical Studies
telephone: +49 551 394956
fax: +49 551 3965605
e-mail address: steffen.unkel(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Location: Humboldtallee 32, Etage 1, 132
ORCID iD: orcid.org/0000-0002-2083-0090
Short biography
[06/2018]
Venia Legendi in Statistics - Medical Faculty, Georg-August-University Göttingen
[01/2017]
Habilitation in Statistics - Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
[since 07/2014]
Research Fellow, Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen
[04/2013 - 02/2014]
Visting Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
[04/2012 - 06/2014]
Research Fellow, Institut of Medical Informatics, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
[10/2009 - 03/2012]
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, United Kingdom
[10/2006 - 09/2009]
PhD in Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, United Kingdom
[10/2004 - 07/2005]
MSc in Statistics, University of London - London School of Economics, United Kingdom
[05/2002 - 09/2006]
Research Assistant, Department of Statistics and Econometrics, University of Siegen
[09/1994 - 04/2002]
Diplom-Volkswirt and Diplom Kaufmann, Department of Economics, University of Siegen
Reasearch interests
• Survival analysis
• Multivariate methods
• Computational statistics
Teaching
Winter term 2020/21
- Analysis of Time-to-Event Data
Summer term 2020
- Clinical Trials
Some previously held courses
- Linear Models and their Mathematical Foundations
- Multivariate Statistics
- Statistical Methods in Psychometrics (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)
Munich R courses
Third-party funding
Principal investigator of a research grant funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) entitled "Frailty modelling for multivariate current status data with applications in epidemiology" (Amount of funding: 295,600 Euro; Project duration: 3 years).
Memberships
- International Biometric Society