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