Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ernst Wit (JBI)

Professor Ernst Wit is the head of the Statistics and Probability group at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (PhD Philosophy 1997, PhD Statistics 2005). From 2000 until 2005 he worked in the Statistics Department at the University of Glasgow on statistical applications in genomics and published a book in 2004 on Statistics for Microarrays. In 2006 he became head of the Medical Statistics Unit at the University of Lancaster as Professor of Biometrics. Since 2008 Wit is at the University of Groningen, where he has continued to work on methodological development in high-dimensional inference with a specific focus on network modelling. He is the author of 108 peer-reviewed publications. He has served as the President of the European Bernoulli Society and is currently member of the Board of Directors of the International Biometrics Society. He is president of the Dutch Biostatistics Society and head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Groningen. He is currently leading a European COST Action, entitled COSTNET (CA15109), that deals with novel inference methods for statistical network science. He advises the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Netherlands on statistical matters relating to elections and referendums (2014-2017).

Corporate webpage: http://www.rug.nl/staff/e.c.wit/