Research interests

• Statistical and computational challenges of Big Data
• Quantile regression
• Copulas and empirical copula processes
• Empirical process theory
• Bootstrap procedures
• Extreme value theory and methods
• Time series Analysis

Editorial Activities

since 01/2022 - Associate editor for Electronic Journal of Statistics
since 01/2022 - Associate editor for Canadian Journal of Statistics
since 09/2021 - Associate editor for Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
since 01/2014 - Associate editor for Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes
since 07/2018 - Associate editor for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
01/2016 - 12/2018 Associate editor for Bernoulli

Education

Ph.D. Mathematics, Ruhr University Bochum, 2010 Advisor: Prof. Holger Dette.
Diploma in Mathematics, Ruhr University Bochum, 2007

Prior Appointments

Cornell University, Department of Statistical Science
Assistant Professor (tenure track), 08/2015 – 06/2016

Ruhr University Bochum, Department of Mathematics
Research fellow, 04/2007 - 02/2012 and 03/2013 – 07/2015

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Statistics
Visiting Scholar, 03/2012 - 02/2013 Hosts: Prof. Roger Koenker, Prof. Stephen Portnoy.