Prof. Dr. Tim Friede
Head of the Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen
About this speaker
Since January 2010 Tim Friede has been Professor of Biostatistics at the University Medical Center Göttingen where he heads up the Department of Medical Statistics.
He graduated in Mathematics (Dipl.-Math.) from the University of Karlsruhe and obtained a PhD (Dr.sc.hum.) from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Heidelberg. In 2001 he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University as NHS Training Fellow in Medical Statistics and was later promoted to Lecturer in Biostatistics.
From 2004 on he worked for Novartis Pharma AG, Basel before joining Warwick Medical School as Associate Professor of Medical Statistics in October 2006.
In 2014 he was awarded the certificate “Biometry in Medicine” by the German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) and the German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS-DR) demonstrating his qualification as a trial statistician.
Since 2015 Tim Friede has been a member of the Sino-German Institute for Social Computing (SGISC) and has served on the Board of Directors of the SGISC since the beginning of 2020. He is also a member of the Campus-Institut Data Science (CIDAS) since 2023.
