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Christian Staerk

Professorship:

Biostatistical Methods for Environmental Medicine, joint appointment with IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf, since 1 April 2024

Department:

Statistics

Studies and doctorate:

  • 2018: Doctorate in Mathematics / Statistics at RWTH Aachen University
  • 2014: Master of Science in Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University
  • 2012-2013: Study abroad in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham, UK
  • 2012: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University
picture of a man in a library © Hesham Elsherif​/​TU Dortmund

Stages:

  • 2023-2024: Interim Professor of Computational Statistics at RWTH Aachen
  • 2019-2023: Research Associate at the Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology (IMBIE) at the University of Bonn
  • 2014-2019: Research Associate at the Institute of Statistics at RWTH Aachen University

Focus in research:

  • Biostatistical methods for high-dimensional data
  • Statistical learning and computational statistics
  • Genetic and environmental factors