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Research Interests
Spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, non stationary processes, large datasets, robustness in geostatistics, ensemble kalman filter, statistical evaluation of climate model output
Education
1991: Graduation, North Kossuth High School, Iowa, USA
1993: Scientific baccalaureate type C, College Spiritus Sanctus, Brig, Switzerland
1997: Certificate of Applied Mathematics Teaching (CESMA), EPFL
1998: Diploma in Mathematics at EPFL. Undergraduate thesis: Spatial statistics: Point processes and multivariate measures
1998: Diploma in Mathematics at EPFL. Undergraduate thesis: Spatial statistics: Point processes and multivariate measures
2002: Doctoral thesis at EPFL: Aspects of Modern Geostatistics: Non-stationarity, Covariance Estimation and State-Space Decompositions. Advisor Prof. Stephan Morgenthalter.
Professional Experience
1998-2002: Research assistant at EPFL, Switzerland
2002-2005: Postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Statistics Project, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
2005-June 2009: Assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA
2009-2016: Assistant professor (tenure track) at the Department of Mathematics, UZH
Date of birth: 4.10.72
Citizenship: Eisten, VS, Switzerland
Married, 3 Boys
2014- : Affiliate faculty member Department of Computational Science, UZH
2016- : Associate professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Zurich (UZH)