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Professor Dr Iris Pigeot

Curriculum vitae

Professor Iris Pigeot has been the director of the today's Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS since March 2004 and since September 2001 she has been in charge of the Department of Biometry and Data Management of the institute.

Having finished her studies in statistics and sociology at the University of Dortmund in 1985, she worked as a scientific assistant, earned her doctorate with a dissertation on the topic "Estimators of common odds ratios in sparse contingency tables" in 1989, and earned a professorship for statistics with a post-doctoral dissertation entitled "Multiple tests in outlier detection" in 1993.

She was appointed as an assistant professor at the University of Dortmund and as a full professor at the University of Munich. She also held positions as a visiting lecturer and a visiting professor in Mainz, Zurich (Switzerland), Aalborg (Denmark), and Bern (Switzerland). In September 2001 she accepted a full professorship for "Statistics with a Focus on Biometry and Methods in Epidemiology" at the University of Bremen.

Her research activities center on the fields of bioequivalence studies, graphical models, and genetic epidemiology. In recent years she has widened the spectrum of her research to include the use of secondary data in the research of pharmaceutical drug safety as well as primary prevention and ist evaluation, especially for childhood obesity.

She received several teaching awards: the "Medal for Excellent Teaching" from the University of Dortmund in 1994, the "Award for Quality Teaching" from the Friends of the University of Munich in 1996, and the "Berninghausen Award for Excellent Teaching and ist Innovation" by the Friends of the University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen (so-called unifreunde) in 2008. In 2010 the IBS-DR awarded her the Susanne-Dahms medal for special accomplishments in in the field of biometry.

She serves as a member of the advisory board of the Federal Health Journal (Bundesgesundheitsblatt), as an associate editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, and as an editor of the book series on Epidemiology and Health published by Springer. In March 2010 she was appointed to the advisory board of the German Centre for Cancer Registry Data at the Robert Koch Institute.

Research interests

Bioequivalence Studies
Graphical Models
Genetic Epidemiology
Use of secondary data in drug safety research
Primary prevention and its evaluation (especially of childhood obesity)

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