Biography

I am an applied statistician working as an assistant researcher at the Ocean Sciences department at the University of California Santa Cruz. My research interests are focused on the development and implementation of statistical methods that combine large sets of observations with complex numerical models, including data assimilation, optimization and uncertainty analyses.

Interests

• scientific computing
• data assimilation
• marine modelling

Education

• PhD in Applied Statistics, 2012
  Dalhousie University
• MSc in Computational Life Sciences, 2008
  Universität zu Lübeck
• BSc in Computational Life Sciences, 2006
  Universität zu Lübeck

Experience

• Assistant Researcher
  Ocean Sciences Department, UC Santa Cruz
  2017 – Present · Santa Cruz, California

• Postdoctoral Fellow
  Ocean Sciences Department, UC Santa Cruz
  2013 – 2017 · Santa Cruz, California

• Postdoctoral Fellow
  Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University
  2012 – 2013 · Halifax, Canada

• PhD student
  Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University
  2009 – 2012 · Halifax, Canada

• Student assistant
  Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Universität zu Lübeck
  2004 – 2007 · Lübeck, Germany

Computer skills

advanced experience (currently used in day-to-day research):

Python, bash, Stan, Julia

intermediate experience (used in previous projects):

FORTRAN, Matlab, C++, Java, JavaScript

Teaching experience

• teaching graduate level course Python programming for Ocean Scientists consisting of 19 classes, UC Santa Cruz (28.5 h total)
• teaching labs for Marine Modelling, Dalhousie University (2008, 2010, 2011; 9h total)
• teaching class in Multivariate Analysis, Dalhousie University (2011; 1.5h total)