Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Math. Dr. Arne Bathke
Full Professor

Jakob-Haringer Str. 6 (Techno 6), 5020 Salzburg

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Arne Bathke is Professor of Statistics and member of the Intelligent Data Analytics (IDA) Lab Salzburg and the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces (AIHI) at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS).

He was born in Hamburg, grew up in Northern Germany and Norway. Bathke studied mathematics in Göttingen, spent study time abroad in Italy and the USA, and obtained his doctoral degree in 2000 in Göttingen. Afterwards, he worked for 11 years in the United States as Statistics Professor at the University of Kentucky, where he was also inaugural director of the Applied Statistics Laboratory, a comprehensive statistics consulting facility on campus. 2012 he joined the University of Salzburg as Professor of Statistics. From 2015 to 2024, he was Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences.

Arne Bathke’s research deals with developing and evaluating new statistical methods, and he has given numerous invited talks, lectures and workshops on five continents. On the other hand, he is also engaged in the application and improvement of statistical procedures in interdisciplinary cooperations with colleagues from other fields, from medicine and biology to economics, as well as in the Austrian Future Operations Platform and as a High Level Expert Group Member at the United Nations. About half of his more than 100 scientific publications in international journals result from interdisciplinary cooperation projects.

Among other awards, Arne Bathke is Fellow of the American Statistical Association (currently as the only scientist in Austria!) and an elected member of the European Academy of the Sciences and the Arts. Furthermore, he was named “Henry Clay Ambassador” by the Mayor of Lexington (Kentucky) for his civil engagement, and he has received two university-wide awards for excellence in teaching and advising. Furthermore, he has been President of the International Biometric Society – Region Österreich-Schweiz (IBS-ROeS), is on the board of the Austrian Statistical Association (ÖSG), Editor-in-Chief of Biometrical Journal, the flagship journal of the International Biometric Society Regions Germany, Austria-Switzerland, and Italy, as well as on the editorial board of three other international statistics journals (International Journal of Biostatistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, The American Statistician). Bathke is the organizer of an annual Biostatistics Summer School, and he has organized and co-organized several meetings, workshops, and conferences.