RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Statistical Boosting


• Generalised Geo-Additive Mixed Models

TEACHING

• Advanced Statistical Inference (Likelihood and Bayes) (WiSe2023/2024)


• Data Science II (SoSe2023, SoSe2024)


• Grundlagen Bayesianischer Statistik und Statistisches Lernen (WiSe2024/2025)


• Praktikum Statistische Modellierung (SoSe2024, SoSe2025)




For theses, a personal meeting is recommended, where also topics outside of the theses offered here are possible.

SOFTWARE

• mermboost - A novel gradient boosting framework for mixed models. [R pacakge via CRAN]

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

• IWSM 2025 Spatially aware gradient boosting towards sparser models (Talks)


• DAGStat 2025 Re-thinking spatial components in gradient boosting (Talks)


• CompStat 2024 Spatial Confounding in Gradient Boosting (Talks)


• IWSM 2024 Spatial Confounding in Gradient Boosting (Talks)


• CMStatistics 2023 A novel gradient boosting framework for generalised additive mixed models (Talks)


• IWSM 2023 A novel gradient boosting framework for generalised additive mixed models (Poster)


• Statistical Computing 2022 Gradient boosting for linear mixed effects logit models