Short Profile ...
I am currently working as an assistant professor in the
Department of Methodology and Statistics at
Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The Department of Methodology and Statistics is part of the
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML). My position falls under the
School for Public Health and Primary Care. I was born in
Aachen, Germany, moved to the United States when I was 16, and then spent the next 11 years of my life in the United States. After receiving my Ph.D. in 2004 from the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, I moved back to Europe and started working at Maastricht University. My research is primarily focused on the statistical methods used for meta-analyses, but I am interested more generally in mixed-effects models as used for the analysis of longitudinal and multilevel/hierarchical data. I currently teach a course on research methods at the
University College Maastricht (UCM) and co-teach several courses on various statistical methods for students in the Health Sciences and Public Health programs.
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