Vice-rector for Research and Research Networking
Lehrstuhlinhaberin
Nach Vereinbarung
Member of the Board of Directors of ZiF, Director
Christiane Fuchs is the Head of the Data Science Group at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at Bielefeld University, as well as the Head of the Biostatistics Research Group and the Core Facility Statistical Consulting at Helmholtz Munich.
She completed an MSc in Computational Mathematics at Brunel University West London in 2003 and a Diploma in Mathematics with Computer Science at the University of Hanover in 2005. She then started her research career studying topics in Bayesian inference, obtaining a PhD in Statistics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 2010. In 2011 she started working at Helmholtz Munich, first as a research fellow working on biological modeling at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, and then as a team and group leader of Biostatistics at the Institute of Computational Biology. In 2017 she founded the Core Facility Statistical Consulting at Helmholtz Munich, a center providing teaching and statistical consulting for research institutes, universities and industrial partners. In 2018 she joined Bielefeld University as Professor of Data Science.
In her work, Christiane Fuchs conducts both method-driven and application-driven research, dealing with diverse interdisciplinary topics, ranging from economics, through mathematical epidemiology, to medicine. She is or has been principal investigator in several national and international research projects, including projects funded by the DFG, BMBF, BMG, NIH, EU and Helmholtz Association.
Since October 2023, Christiane Fuchs is Vice Rector for Research and Research Networking at Bielefeld University.