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Personal:

Picture: (click picture for location) Current Work Address:
In the Tyresta National Park
Michael Höhle
Department of Mathematics
Stockholm University
Kräftriket
106 91 Stockholm
Sweden

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Positions

01/2023 -
current
Full Professor for Statistics and Data Science, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Greifswald, Germany
Areas of work: biostatistical methods, spatio-temporal modelling, statistical consulting, teaching
05/2018 -
02/2022
Professor (Promoted), Division of Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Areas of work: biostatistical methods, statistical modelling, teaching
07/2022 -
12/2022
Team Lead Vaccination Modelling, Immunization Unit, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Germany
Areas of work: mathematical modelling of vaccine preventable diseases, statistical consulting
09/2021 -
12/2021
Senior Data Scientist, COVID-19 Analytics Group, Health Emergency Information & Risk Assessment, Field Epidemiology Support, WHO HQ, Geneva, Switzerland
Areas of work: short-term COVID-19 projections, developing quantitative-qualitative risk assessment methodology
11/2015 -
06/2022
Head of the Medical Biometry and Statistics Unit, Federal Institute for Quality Assurance and Transparency in Healthcare (IQTIG), Berlin, Germany
Areas of work: biostatistical methods, statistical process control, statistical consulting, quality assurance of statistical analyses
04/2013 -
04/2018
Associate Professor (in Swedish: Universitetslektor), Division of Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Areas of work: biostatistical methods, epidemiological modelling, teaching
04/2010 -
03/2013
Senior Statistician, Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Areas of work: Infectious disease epidemiology, spatio-temporal modelling, statistical consulting
05/2003 -
03/2010 
Assistant Professor (in German: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Areas of work: MC-Health, spatio-temporal modelling, surveillance of infectious diseases, statistical consulting, teaching, supervision of students
04/2008 -
09/2008
Substitute Associate Professor (in German: W2-Vertretungsprofessor) in Biostatistics, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Areas of work: teaching, supervision of students, statistical consulting
02/2000 -
04/2003
Ph.D student at the Department of Animal Science and Animal Health, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen and the Biometric Research Unit, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Foulum, Denmark
Areas of work: mathematical decision support, teaching
09/1999 -
01/2000
Research Assistant at the Image Analysis and Computer Graphics section, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark
Area of work: Spot detection and matching of 2D gel electrophoresis images


Education


10/2014
Docent in Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Title: Spatial, Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Statistical Modelling of Clustered Events
10/2006 -
10/2009
Habilitation in Statistics at the Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Thesis title: Statistical Modeling and Monitoring of Infectious Diseases
02/2000 -
10/2003
Ph.D. from the Department of Animal Science and Animal Health, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Thesis title: Decision Support for Disease Management in Pig Production via Statistical Modelling
09/1994 -
07/1999
B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Computer Science (major) and Math (minor), Aalborg University, Denmark. Specialization in Decision Support Systems
Master’s thesis title: Sleep Stage Classification - Learning Bayesian Classification Networks

Further Education

06/2004 -
10/2009
University didactical education and award of the certificate "Hochschullehre Bayern".
10/2002
One month research stay with Prof. Dr. Philip O'Neill of the Epidemic Modelling group, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, U.K.


Memberships

The International Biometric Society (German Region)
Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics
Foundation for Open Access Statistics

Awards

COVID-19 Special Award, 2022, by the Federal Statistical Office of Germany for the publication On assessing excess mortality in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic and its update for 2021 data (joint with G. De Nicola and G. Kauermann)

Best Paper in Biometrics by an International Biometric Society Member in 2014 for the publication Bayesian nowcasting during the STEC O104:H4 outbreak in Germany, 2011 (joint with M. an der Heiden)

2nd Gustav-Adolf-Lienert-Preis 2010, German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS)

European Regional Section (ERS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), CompStat 2006 young researchers award

The rest

Besides all the above mentioned chair rocking activities I am an active enjoyer of sports and nature.