Markus completed his PhD in mathematics in Düsseldorf in 2008 with the help of a self-raised PhD scholarship. Afterwards he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington in Seattle (2009) and, funded by a scholarship from the DAAD, one year at the Institute for mathematical statistics at the University of Bern in Switzerland (2010-2011). There he laid the foundation for his habilitation in mathematics which he achieved in 2013. From 2014 to 2019 he was W3 professor for Statistics at Ulm University and thereafter switched to his current W3 professor position at TU Dortmund University. He is one of the four founding directors of the Center (2021).
Together with his research group he investigates a wide range of statistical topics including the development and application of statistical methods in the life and social sciences with a special application focus on questions from medicine and psychology. Markus is an expert for resampling, semi- and non-parametric methods for heterogeneous (factorial) designs, statistical learning as well as survival and time series analysis.
He has published more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings ranging from pure methodological achievements to interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues from medicine, neuroscience, psychology or industry.
Markus is an active member of the Stochastic Section of the DMV (German Mathematical Union) and the German Region of the International Biometric Society and head of the IBS-DR Nonparametric Methods Working Group since 2012. He is on the editorial board of two international journals (Biometrical Journal, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology), part of the IBS-DR SScintific Board and member of the Management Board of the Graduate School of Logistics (GSofLog), a third party sponsored graduate program.
I have led or have been involved in several research projects (DFG, VW, ministerial), see Projects for details. I also received scientific awards: