Teaching

Regular Lectures, Exercise Classes and Seminars:

@Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

L&E	Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases (WiSe2012)
L&E	Temporal and spatio-temporal modelling of infectious diseases (WiSe2011)
L&E	Survival Analysis (WiSe2009)
S	Bayesian Smoothing and Regression for Longitudinal, Spatial and Event History Data (WiSe2009)
L&E	Biostatistical Methods (SoSe2009)
L	Survival Analysis (WiSe2008)
L	Spatial Statistics (WiSe2008)
S	Regression: From conditional expectations to conditional densities (WiSe2008)
L&E	Biostatistical Methods (WiSe2007)
E	Analysis of longitudinal data and time series (SoSe2007)
E	Statistics IV for statisticians (SoSe2007)
L	Numerical Methods for Bayesian Inference (WiSe2006)
L&E	Biostatistical Methods (WiSe2006)
E	Stochastics for bioinformaticists (SoSe2006)
E	Statistics IV for statisticians (SoSe2006)
L&E	Computational Statistics (WiSe2005)
E	Stochastics for bioinformaticists (SoSe2005)
E	Statistics IV for statisticians (SoSe2005)
E	Analysis of longitudinal data and time series (WiSe2004)
E	Statistics III for statisticians (WiSe2004)
E	Computer intensive methods in statistics (SoSe2004)
E	Stochastics for bioinformaticists (SoSe2004)
S	Statistical Methods for Infectious Disease Epidemiology (WiSe2003)

@ Technische Universität München

Type	Name
L&E	Statistics in Biosciences (SoSe2008)
S	Statistical Methods in Data Mining with Applications (SoSe2008)
L&E	Higher Mathematics II (SoSe 2008)

@ Universität Zürich

Type	Name
L	Statistical Methods in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Feb 2012)

Short courses:

(upcoming) Pre-conference course Statistical methods in infectious disease epidemiology, 34th conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Munich, 25 Aug 2013. Together with Leonhard Held.
Short course Spatial Statistics with R, Research Training Group 1644 "Scaling Problems in Statistics", University of Göttingen, 26-28 Sep 2012.Together with T. Kneib and R. Nuske.
Half-day module on Statistical Methods in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Part of the M.Sc. and M.Ph. course on Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Berlin School of Public Health, Charité, Berlin, 14 Jun 2012.
Half-day tutorial on Spatial Statistics with R, Sep 23, 2011 as part of the Statistische Woche 2011, Leipzig, together with T. Kneib.
Half-day module on Statistical Methods in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Part of the M.Sc. and M.Ph. course on Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Berlin School of Public Health, Charité, Berlin, 23 Jun 2011.
Short course on Temporal and spatio-temporal monitoring of infectious diseases, Department of Statistics “G. Parenti” University of Florence, Italy, Feb 9-10, 2011.
Two-day course on Spatial Statistics with R, Oct 14-15, 2010, together with T. Kneib.
Short course on Recent Developments in Biostatistics: Space-Time Models, IBE, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, Jul 7–13, 2010. Together with S. Greven and U. Mansmann.
Two-day course on Spatial Statistics with R, Feb 25-26, 2010, together with T. Kneib.
Short course on Spatial Statistics in Epidemiology, IBE, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, Jul 6-10, 2009, held together with U. Mansmann and S. Rückinger.
Short course on Statistical surveillance of infectious diseases, Department of Statistics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, Nov 27-28, 2008

Supervision:

I still supervise Bachelor's, Master's and Diploma theses at the Department of Statistics at the LMU Munich. Contact me if you are interested in a theme on the intersection of statistics and infectious disease epidemiology. Statistical methodology will originate from a mix of the following courses: Spatial statistics, Biostatistical Methods and Survival Analysis. See also the links below for content of previous theses.

Ph.D. Students:

Maëlle Salmon, Modern Statistical Algorithms for the Detection of Aberrations in Routine Collected Public Health Data, started Oct 2012
Felix Weidemann, Statistical Modelling of Dynamic Systems for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, joint supervision with M. Dehnert (RKI), started Apr 2011

Master's and Diploma Thesis:

Michael Laimighofer, Stochastic differential equations and their parameter inference for the susceptible-infected-recovered model, February 2013
Mirjam Rehr, Statistische Methoden zur räumlichen und zeitlich-räumlichen Clusterdetektion, February 2011
Annika Witt, Count data time series modelling of diseases covered by the German Infection Protection Act , January 2011
Juliane Manitz, Automated detection of infectious disease outbreaks, August 2010
Matthias Hunger, Flexible regression approaches for statistical modelling in health economic evaluation, February 2010, joint supervision with L. Fahrmeir
Sebastian Meyer, Spatio-temporal infectious disease epidemiology based on point processes, December 2009, joint supervision with L. Fahrmeir
Andreas Böck, Räumlich-zeitliche Modellierung der bayerischen Waldzustandsdaten, July 2009, joint supervision with T. Hothorn
Judith Westermann, Statistical prediction of adult obesity in the British National Child Development Study, May 2009, joint supervision with L. Fahrmeir
Armin Meier, Obesity classification based on flexible regression methods, January 2009, joint supervision with L. Fahrmeir
Carla Tiesler, Survival prediction models based on microarray data, January 2009
Michaela Paul, Statistical Surveillance of Multivariate Infectious Disease Data, February 2007
Inga Tschöpe, Statistical analysis of spatio-temporal incidence data on infectious diseases, August 2005, joint supervision with L. Held

Bachelor's Thesis:

Franca Kirchberg, Die Backcalculation-Methode und deren Anwendung zur Schätzung der HIV-Infektionsrate, July 2010
Sebastian Meyer, Infektiöse Krankheiten in Raum und Zeit - Simulation und Inferenz, December 2007, joint supervision with L. Fahrmeir
Valentin Wimmer, Surveillance basierend auf Likelihood-Ratio-Detektoren, June 2007, joint supervision with L. Fahrmeir
Andrea Riebler, Empirischer Vergleich von statistischen Methoden zur Ausbruchserkennung bei Surveillance Daten, June 2004, joint supervision with L. Held

Visiting Ph.D. Students:

Thais R. Correa, Department of Statistics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Jan-Feb 2009

Mentoring:

Valentin Wimmer, New statistical methods in estimation of genomic breeding values, Chair of Plant Breeding, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Germany, Ph.D. student, started spring 2010

Study Groups:

Computational Statistics Circle (CSC)