Prof. Dr. Werner Brannath

Werner Brannath is Professor of Applied Statistics and Biometry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bremen and Head of the Department of Biometry at the Competence Centre for Clinical Studies Bremen (KKSB) and member of the Board of Directors of the KKSB. He studied mathematics and physics in Karlsruhe and Vienna and was a research assistant at the Institute of Statistics at the University of Vienna and the Institute of Medical Statistics at the Medical Faculty. Before coming to Bremen, he was an Associate Professor at the Medical University of Vienna. He also spent a year on a research fellowship at the Statistics Department of Stanford University. He is an active member of the German Region (IBS-DR) of the International Biometric Society (IBS), serving as its Region President from 2019 to 2021 and establishing and currently chairing the Region's Public Relations Working Group. He has also been active in the Austrian-Swiss Region (ROeS) serving as chair of the Vienna Biometrical Section (WBS) and founding chair of the working group on Adaptive Designs and Multiple Testing Procedures of the IBS-DR and ROeS. He has also been an Associate Editor for Biometrics and is currently an Associate Editor for the Biometrical Journal. He has been and still is a member of several independent data and safety monitoring boards for clinical trials, has been of a member of an Ethics Committee in Vienna and is currently a deputy member of the Ethics Committee at the University of Bremen.

His research interests include the development and investigation of statistical methods for multiple testing, complex clinical trials, in particular adaptive designs and trials for personalised medicine. His current research also includes the development and evaluation of machine learning methods and digital health applications. He is active in serval research networks, e.g. the DFG Research Training Group π3, the Research Unit "LifeSpan AI", the AI Center for Health Care of the UBremen Research Alliance and the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Digital Public Health". He is also involved as the responsible statistician for a number of clinical trials and medical studies at the KKSB. At the University of Bremen, he teaches and supervises bachelor and master students in mathematics and biostatistics and chairs the examination board for the master programme in Medical Biometry/Biostatistics.