About me

I am a docent and associate professor in biostatistics. I have worked as a biostatistician in Sweden, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, including positions in academia and in government.

I am currently a member of the Management Group for the Swedish eScience Research Centre and a co-leader for the eScience for Cancer Prevention and Control project.

Research description

My main interests are in statistical modelling and simulation for cancer. This includes:

Current primary PhD supervision

Previous primary PhD supervision

Teaching portfolio

Course director for Biostatistics III: Survival analysis for epidemiologists; which has an accompanying R package biostat3 on CRAN. I also teach for Public Health Sciences.

Education

  • 1991, BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Auckland
  • 2001, PhD in Biostatistics and Cancer Epidemiology, University of Sydney