Postal address Department of Mathematics Humboldt-University Berlin Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin

Office Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 25 "Johann von Neumann-Haus" Room 1.203 D-12489 Berlin

Contact Phone Fax E-Mail Secretariat   +49-(0)30-2093 5841 +49-(0)30-2093 5848 dickhaus@math.hu-berlin.de +49-(0)30-2093 5811

Research Interests

• Multiple testing / false discovery rate
• Asymptotic statistics / large deviations theory
• Resampling and bootstrap techniques
• Statistical applications in biometry / epidemiology and neuroscience
• Computational statistics

Granted projects

• μTOSS (European Union, PASCAL2 Harvest Programme)
• Statistical inference methods for assessing the genetic basis of risk preferences
  (DFG, INST 276/604-1 (SFB 649/2))
• Multiple testing under unspecified dependency structure
  (DFG, DI 1723/2-1 (FOR 1735/1))

Service to the scientific community / Professional activities

• Managing Editor and Associate Editor for Statistics (Berlin)
• Reviewer for
  • Mathematical Reviews
  • Zentralblatt MATH
  • The Annals of Statistics
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association
  • Sankhya
  • Electronic Journal of Statistics
  • Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
  • Canadian Journal of Statistics
  • Statistics (Berlin)
  • Communications in Statistics
  • Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
  • Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • The International Journal of Biostatistics
  • Biometrical Journal
  • Algorithms for Molecular Biology
  • Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
• Organizer of the workshop "μTOSS 2010 Berlin - Multiple Comparisons from Theory to Practice"
• Organizer of the C.A.S.E. Distinguished Lecture Series 2012
• Coordinating Delegate of Humboldt-University for the 16. Berlin Day of Mathematics
• Member of The Probability & Statistics Group of Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung
• Member of the International Biometric Society, German Region
• Faculty member of the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS)
• Member of C.A.S.E. - Center for Applied Statistics and Economics

News (April 17th, 2012)

• First teaching material for the summer term 2012 is now available on my teaching page.
• The research unit "Structural Inference in Statistics: Adaptation and Efficiency"
  has been approved by the DFG.
• Subproject A14 within the CRC 649 "Economic Risk" has been approved by the DFG.
• Our manuscript on step-up-down tests for exact FDR control based on the
  asymptotically optimal rejection curve has been accepted for publication in the
  Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, see my publication list.
• You can read about our most recent false discovery rate-related research here.
• Several lecture manuscripts and other teaching material can be found on my teaching page.

Latest Modification: 24.04.2012, Thorsten Dickhaus