I'm a full professor at  the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security and Department of Statistics of TU Dortmund. My research is about statistics, machine learning and psychological assessment. 

Black-box methods from machine learning and AI have improved our ability to predict using (big) data, it is unclear or impossible to obtain human-understandable scientific knowledge from  them. My group develops methods to do so.

I develop open-source software packages for the programming environment R (links on left or GitHub). My work has been published in journals like Psychological Methods, the Journal of Statistical Software, Information Fusion and World Psychiatry (see links on the left or Google Scholar), and has been covered in popular media outlets (see links on the left). As Mary-Jo and the Support Vector Machines, I make music videos about statistical methods (see links on the left or YouTube).

I am recruiting postdocs and PhD students to join my  group at the Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security and the Department of Statistics at TU Dortmund. If you are interested and have a strong background in at least two out of {statistics, machine learning, behavioral science}, send me a message (my_last_name AT statistik.tu-dortmund.de)! Include a copy of your CV, postdocs also include a research statement.