Scholar
Vanessa Didelez
Google Scholar ID: T-XaM1YAAAAJ
Professor of Statistics and Causal Inference, Leibniz Instit Prevention Res and Epidemiology - BIPS
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,073
H-index
27
i10-index
51
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Scientific Chair of the CLeaR Conference 'Causal Learning and Reasoning' in 2024
- - President's Invited Speaker (keynote) at ISCB-2024 in Milan in 2023
- - Principal investigator of the project 'Causal Discovery across the Lifespan' as part of the DFG Research Unit 'LifespanAI' from 2022 to 2026
- - Principal investigator of a project as part of the DFG collaborative research center EASE 'Sensory-motor and Causal Human Activity Models for Cognitive Architectures' from 2021 to 2026
- - Principal investigator of the UBRA Project 'IDEAL' on causal inference and target trials to develop electronic medical guidelines from 2021 to 2024
- - Principal investigator of the DFG grant 'Causal Discovery for Cohort Data' from 2018 to 2021
- - Collaborator on the MRC grant 'Development of a multilevel and mixture-model framework for modelling epigenetic changes over time' from 2015 to 2018
- - Collaborator on the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Theme 3: 'Statistical and Econometric Methodology' from 2013 to 2023
- - Leverhulme Research Fellowship 'Statistical models and methods for complex causal inference' from 2011 to 2013
- - Co-investigator on the MRC grant 'Inferring epidemiological causality using Mendelian Randomisation' from 2007 to 2010
Research Experience
- - Since July 2016, Professor of Statistics and Causal Inference at the University of Bremen and Deputy Head of the Department of Biometry and Data Management at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS
- - Lecturer at the Department of Statistical Science, University College London from 2001 to 2007
- - Lecturer at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol from 2007 to 2009
- - Senior Lecturer at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol from 2009 to 2013
- - Reader in Statistics at the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol from 2013 to June 2016
Education
- PhD (Dr rer.nat.) from the Department of Statistics, University of Dortmund, Germany in December 2000; Diploma in 'Statistics with Psychology' from the Department of Statistics, University of Dortmund, Germany in 1996.
Background
- Professor of Statistics and Causal Inference; Research interests include the application of statistical methods in epidemiology, causal inference, etc.
Miscellany
- Member of the International Biometric Society (Deutsche Region der Internationalen Biometrischen Gesellschaft / IBS-DR), Member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB)
