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Job Vacancy:

The Research Group Statistical Inverse Problems in Biophysics is looking to fill one group leader position at the interface of mathematical statistics, inverse problems and biophysics. A possible starting date for the position is August, 1st 2012. (details).


lecture series:

Prof. Dr. Andrew Stuart (University of Warwick) will give a lecture series on The Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems from 29.-31. May 2012 (details).



Next talk in the
Stochastics Colloquium:


29.05.2012, 10:00:

Prof. Andrew Stuart
(University of Warwick)
Title: The Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems

Location: Seminar Room (IMS) 5.101




Next talk in the Colloquium
"Stochastics in Practice":


29.06.2012, 14:15:

Prof. Dr. Sungkyu Jung
(University of Pittsburgh)
Title: General Consistency Results of PCA in High Dimension (Abstract)

Location: Seminar Room (IMS) 5.101



Munk
Prof. Dr. Axel Munk
Foto Prof. Dr.                 Axel Munk


Institut für Mathematische Stochastik


Goldschmidtstrasse 7
37077 Göttingen

Room:Raum 4.111: Goldschmidtstr. 7 (Informatik u.Stochastik), Gebaeude Informatik/Stochastik
Phone:+49 551 39 172111
Fax:+49 551 39 13504
Mail:munk@math.uni-goettingen.de
Homepage: http://www.stochastik.math.uni-goettingen.de/munk
Research interests
  • Statistics: nonparametric regression, medical statistics, statistical inverse problems, statistical modeling, statistics and shape
  • Pattern recognition: analysis of fingerprints
Publications
list of publications
Courses
Sommersemester 2012
Curriculum vitae
1967 year of birth
10/92 Diplom in Mathematics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
10/1994 Dr. rer. nat., Georg-August Universität Göttingen
1995 DFG Research Fellowship:TU Dresden, Cornell, The Wharton School, Philadelphia
1996-2000 wiss. Assistent, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1999 Habilitation, Fakultät für Mathematik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2000 Professor for Statistics, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft, Universiät GH Siegen
2001 Professor for Applied Mathematics, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität GH Paderborn
2002-2008 Chair for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
2009 - Felix-Bernstein Chair for Mathematical Statistics
2010 - Max-Planck Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for biophysical Chemistry

Thirds party funded projects
Memberships
Member of

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
Bernoulli Society
American Statistical Association (ASA)
Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV)

Elected member of the ERC (2008-2012) of the Bernoulli Society
Elected member of the The International Statistical Institute (ISI)
Elected member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Academic Service
Associate Editor of

Annals of Statistics
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics
Metrika
Statistics & Risk Modeling
Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference