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Korbinian Strimmer - Contact:

I work at the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE) of the University of Leipzig. The institute is located in Härtelstr. 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany. I am best reached by email via strimmer@uni-leipzig.de. My office phone / FAX numbers are +49 (0)341 / 97-16106 and -16109, respectively.

Short Biography:

In February 2007 I joined the University of Leipzig as associate professor for "Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics". From January 2002 to January 2007 I was the head of an Emmy Noether junior research group at the Department of Statistics of the University of Munich. Prior to that I was a postdoc at the Department of Zoology of the University of Oxford (2000-2001) and at MIPS/GSF at the MPI for Biochemistry (1999). After my Ph.D. I was staff scientist at central research of Siemens Corporate Technology (ZT IK4, 1998-1999).

My first university degree is physics. In my diploma thesis (1994) at the Institute of Theoretical Physics / LMU I worked on a problem in general relativity (supervisor: Georg Süßmann). Subsequently, in my Ph.D. thesis (December 1997) I developed "Maximum likelihood methods in molecular phylogenetics" at the Department of Biology / LMU (supervisor: Arndt von Haeseler). In 1996 I spent a term as visiting graduate student at the Department of Genetics of the University of Cambridge with Nick Goldman.

Quick Links:

• A list of my publications.
• Journals of interest in statistics and bioinformatics.
• Useful online textbooks in probability and statistics
• A collection of various other notes.

Practical Stuff:

• RZ Leipzig webmail.
• Leipzig (BBC, SZ) and Munich weather forecast (BBC, SZ).
• Lunch at Leipzig mensa and medi-mensa and at Munich mensa and LaMi.