Short C.V.

Personal:

Picture:	Born:	March, 1975, Smithtown, N.Y.
	Current Work Address:	PD Michael Höhle, Ph.D. Robert Koch Institute Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology Division 35 Gastrointestinal Infections, Zoonoses and Tropical Infections DGZ-Ring 1 13086 Berlin Germany Email (for university related matters):

At the Department of Statistics I was affiliated to the Chair of Statistics - Methodology and Applications in Economics, Social and Life Sciences (Head: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Fahrmeir). As of 01/04/2010 I work at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany, but remain Privatdozent at the Department of Statistics.

Positions

04/2010 - current	Senior Statistician, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany Areas of work: Infectious disease epidemiology, spatio-temporal modelling, statistical consulting
05/2003 - 03/2010	Assistant Professor (in German: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany Areas of work: MC-Health, spatio-temporal modelling, surveillance of infectious diseases, statistical consulting, teaching, supervision of students
04/2008 - 09/2008	Substitute Associate Professor (in German: W2-Vertretungsprofessor) in Biostatistics, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany Areas of work: teaching, supervision of students, statistical consulting
02/2000 - 04/2003	Ph.D student at the Department of Animal Science and Animal Health, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen and the Biometric Research Unit, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Foulum, Denmark Areas of work: mathematical decision support, teaching
09/1999 - 01/2000	Research Assistant at the Image Analysis and Computer Graphics section, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark Area of work: Spot detection and matching of 2D gel electrophoresis images

Education

10/2006 - 10/2009	Habilitation in Statistics at the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany Thesis title: Statistical Modeling and Monitoring of Infectious Diseases
02/2000 - 10/2003	Ph.D. from the Department of Animal Science and Animal Health, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark Thesis title: Decision Support for Disease Management in Pig Production via Statistical Modelling
09/1994 - 07/1999	B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Computer Science (major) and Math (minor), Aalborg University, Denmark. Specialization in Decision Support Systems Master’s thesis title: Sleep Stage Classification - Learning Bayesian Classification Networks

Further Education

06/2004 - 10/2009	University didactical education and award of the certificate "Hochschullehre Bayern".
10/2002	One month research stay with Prof. Dr. Philip O'Neill of the Epidemic Modelling group, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, U.K.

Memberships

The International Biometric Society (German Region)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie
Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics
Statistics without Borders

Awards

2nd Gustav-Adolf-Lienert-Preis 2010, German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS)

European Regional Section (ERS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), CompStat 2006 young researchers award.

The rest

Besides all the above mentioned chair rocking activities I am an active enjoyer of sports and nature.