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October 28, 2025

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Back to the roots

Two decades ago, I began studying physics at ETH Zürich, driven by the desire to understand the world around us. Along the way, I drifted into the depths of mathematics and the excitement of AI — and somewhere in that journey, physics slipped a bit into the background. Recently, though, my group and I have reconnected with the field through new collaborations, at UHH and beyond, and it has been genuinely rewarding to put my skills to use again. The most recent highlight is our astrophysics paper, which just appeared in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The astrophysicists on the team certainly carried the project to the stars, but it was a joy to be part of it.

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May 7, 2025

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Challenges and Opportunities for Statistics in the Era of Data Science

Our opinion on the state of statistics and its future has now appeared here in Havard Data Science Review. Three conclusions are:
📈 Statistics is still very much alive!
📈 Statistics can contribute to modern data science in many ways, through formal modeling, inference, mathematical guarantees, and much more.
📈 However, statistics also needs to ensure that it stays relevant, joining forces with other data-related fields and participating in the education of the future data scientists.

The paper is also featured in the journals editorial, which I found a very good read more generally.

Organizing the workshop and the paper together with Claudia was a rewarding journey.

Sincere thanks to:
🙏 VolkswagenStiftung, for hosting our workshop, where this paper originated. Everything was perfect: efficient and friendly organization, delicious food, wonderful scenery, practical seminar rooms, …
🙏 Soumendra Lahiri, especially for supporting Claudia and myself in the publishing process.
🙏 And all of the co-authors, for the inspiring discussions in Hannover and skillful contributions to the paper:
Harald Binder, Werner Brannath, Ivor Cribben, Holger Dette, Philipp Doebler, Oliver Feng, Axel Gandy, Sonja Greven, Barbara Hammer, Stefan Harmeling, Thomas Hotz, Göran Kauermann, PD Dr. Joscha Krause, Georg Krempl, Alicia Nieto-Reyes, Ostap Okhrin, Hernando Ombao, Florian Pein, Michal Pešta, Dimitris Politis, Li-Xuan Qin, Tom Rainforth, Holger Rauhut, Henry Reeve, David Salinas, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, Clayton Scott, Johan Segers, Myra Spiliopoulou, Adalbert Wilhelm, Ines Wilms, and Yi Yu.