Studies: Apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Siemens Corp.; Business administration with a focus on statistics and econometrics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Degrees: PhD (Dr. rer. pol.), 1995 Habilitation in statistics and econometrics, 2001.
Current Position: Professor and Holder of the Chair for Statistics and Econometrics in the Social and Economic Sciences Department of the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg.
Past Positions: Research Associate and Head Assistant, Chair for Statistics and Econometrics, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg; Head of the Competence Center for Empirical Methods, Institute for Employment Research (Institute für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, IAB), 2004-2007; Head of the Department of Product and Program Analysis, Federal Employment Agency, Nürnberg, 2004-2007; Professor for Computational Statistics, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, 2007.
Main Areas of Research: nonresponse; techniques for handling missing data, imputation processes in complex samples, theory of sampling, survey statistics, data fusion, identifiability, split questionnaires, econometric productivity estimates from company level data, anonymization of company data, evaluation research, self-selecting outcomes, labor market policy, computation-intensive procedures of statistics, Monte Carlo and Bayesian methods.
