About me

I am a Professor for Biostatistics working under the German Research Foundations Heisenberg Program at the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München, Germany. I am also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and still affiliated with UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria, where I worked as an Associate Professor previously.

My interests cover a wide range of topics. Currently, the appropriate use of modern causal inference methods is a key aspect of my research: this includes practical considerations for the application of these methods to imperfect longitudinal observational databases, continuous interventions, causal fair machine learning, as well as some more foundational issues.

Besides doing research, I am teaching in the Master of Statistics & Data Science degree programme at LMU Munich. I am also acting as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series C).

Over the years, I developed a lot of code, software and teaching materials, which I have made available on this website. Hopefully, these resources prove to be useful for others.