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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nadja Klein

University of Cologne
Institute of Econometrics and Statistics
Universitätsstraße 22a (SSC-Gebäude)
Building: 102
Room: 4.313
D-50923 Cologne

T    +49 221 470-7701
F    +49 221 470-5074
E    n.klein@uni-koeln.de

Consultation-hour: by arrangement

 

 

Research Interests

  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Computational Methods
  • Machine Learning
  • Distributional Regression
  • Smoothing Methods
  • Copula Modelling
  • Shrinkage Priors and Variable Selection

Memberships

  • since 2018: Member of the German Statistical Society (DStatG)
  • since 2018: American Statistical Association (ASA) Early Career Member
  • since 2017: Member of The German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV)
  • since 2017: Member of the Bayesian Analysis and Modeling Research Group, University of Melbourne
  • since 2015: Member of the Centre for Statistics, University of Goettingen
  • 2012-2014: Member of the RTG 1644 "Scaling Problems in Statistics"


Positions

  • since 07/2016: Postdoctoral Feodor-Lynen-Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
  • 10/2015-07/2016: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerda Claeskens (unpaid leave)
  • 2015-2018: Postdoctoral researcher, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • 2012-2014: PhD project Bayesian Structured Additive Distributional Regression (within the DFG Research Project "Structured Additive Quantile and Expectile Regression" (03/2012 - 02/2014) and the DFG Research Project "Structured Additive Distributional Regression" (since 03/2014), supervised by Prof. Dr. Thomas Kneib). Defense (Dr. rer. nat. in Mathematics): 03/12/2014
  • 2012-2014: Member of the RTG 1644 "Scaling Problems in Statistics"
  • 2013-2014: Mentee within the "Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Programme 2013 / 2014"

Prices and Awards

  • since 07/2016: Member of the Humboldt network (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
  • 2015: Award of the Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen for outstanding dissertation Bayesian Structured Additive Distributional Regression
  • 2015: Wolfgang-Wetzel-Price 2015 of the German Statistical Society for the paper Bayesian Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape for Zero-Inflated and Overdispersed Count Data
  • 2014: Award of the Universitaetsbund Goettingen for the dissertation Bayesian Structured Additive Distributional Regression