Curriculae vitae:
born 1947, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1966 Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Physics), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
1971 Master of Science (Sociology), Harvard University
1977 Ph.D. (Statistics and Zoology), University of Michigan
1977-1989 Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan
1989-2005 Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development, then Institute of Gerontology, then Biophysics Research Division, University of Michigan
1991 Publication of "Morphometric Tools for Landmark Data" (Cambridge University Press)
1992-1993 Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
from 1998 Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (international scholarly organization)
1999-2008 Frequent visitor and Guest Professor or Contract Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna
from 2005 Professor of Statistics, Professor of Psychiatry, and Scientific Director of the Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit, University of Washington, Seattle
from 2009 Professor of Morphometrics, Department of Anthropology and Center for Organismal Systems Biology, University of Vienna
Research Areas:
* Morphometrics (the statistics of biological form)
* Quantification for studies in physical anthropology and human evolution
* "Numbers and Reasons" (Zahlen und Vernunft): Philosophy of quantitative inference in the natural and social sciences
* Fetal alcohol syndrome and related disorders
* Organismal systems biology and its quantitative methods |
